Browse Items (26 total)

Detroiter is Ramon A. Martinez, "moving spirit in Negro Nationalist Society which originated in Detroit."

Summarizes various studies and gives some data on Detroit and Michigan.

Attorney Ramon A. Martinez, President of the Detroit branch, describes the Greater Liberia Plan of the Negro Nationalist Society

Third article gives reasons "for the Negro leaving the South, chiefly Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, and coming to Detroit in preference to other cities."

Deals with "population growth, civil and social status, migration, unique institutional and occupational strides."

Describes settlements in Cass County, the first Detroit families, and Michigan's importance in the Underground Railroad.

This third study of Detroit families of ten years or less, living in area bounded by Hastings, Dequindre, Canfield, and Watkings, concludes Detroit must provide better housing facilites for its lower class Begro residents (See also Ponder and Howcott…

Characterizes the unemployed as to migratory status, personal attributes, education, experience.

Finds black member of labor force in early 1935, moved propotionately less frequently than whites, with more very short (intra-county) or very long (interstate) moves.

Race is one of characteristices analyzed in this special tabulation of mobility material from schedules of Michigan Census of Population and Unemployment covering period of 1930-1935.