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An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
History of Negro Employment in Detroit Area Plants of Ford Motor Company, 1914-1941.
Discusses relationship of Henry Ford to Negro ministers; Negro politics in the area; job selling at Ford.
Uncle Tom is Dead, Full Text of Address Delivered at the Founding Convention of the National Negro Labor Council at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 1951.
Gives text of talk by Secretary of Ford Local 600 and President of the Council.
An Open Letter to the Ford Motor Company
Editor of Michigan Chronicle and President of Michigan Civil Rights Federation join President of Michigan Division, National Negro Congress, in pointing out to Ford Motor Company the racial implications of their action in the Ford Strike.
The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case
This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.
Negro Organization at Ford's, Section 5 of UAW
Three page account of the 1941 Ford Strike by UAW Director of Negro Organizational Activities.
Proportion of Colored Employees in Each Building, Rouge Plant, 10/5/37
Includes one page entitled "Colored Count in Tool Rooms"
The Role of the Negro in the Organization of the C.I.O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.
A Letter to Her Soldier Husband
Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.