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Democracy in Grand Rapids--Do We Practice What We Preach? Luncheon Series, October [15] - November [19] 1959
Areas discussed include housing, education, employment, attitude of churches.
Compiled Studies
Partial Contents:-Brief Industrial History of Flint. -Population of Flint. -Housing Situation in Flint, Michigan. -Census of Problem Children in the Flint Public Schools, School Year 1935-1936
We Open the Gates
p.23-28. The Price of Brotherhood. Gives examples of UAW efforts to eliminate discrimination in employment in metropolitan Detroit.
Disadvantaged Youth: Problems of Job Placement, Job Creation, and Job Development.
Reviews and evaluates manpower development and training projects initiated 1962-1965, including Detroit's Mayor's Youth Employment Project.
Racial Factors in American Industry
Gives occasional illustrations from Detroit of such items as impact of unemployment, and work and living habits of Negro labor.
Negro Americans Take the Lead, a Statement on the Crisis in American Civilization
P. 30-42. American People and the American Crisis. (Reprinted in Speak Out, Bulletin of the Facing Realities Publishing Committee. 1:24-34. April 27, 1964) Summarizes responses of various groups in the Detroit area (academic community, white workers,…
Labor and Automobiles
The Negro Worker. Traces Negro's employment experience in the auto plants.
The Negro Artisan, Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Seventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University on May 27th, 1902.
Uses one paragraph to summarize types and numbers of black artisans in Michigan.
Raising the Levels of Aspirations of Children Whose Parents Are Receiving Public Subsidy: a Pilot Project
Describes the project, a workshop of sixteen sessions at which community leaders talk with thirteen to sixteen year olds on career choices.