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A Study of the Chronic Dependent in Caseload of the Detroit Department of Public Welfare
Cites lack of education and work skills and community racial discriminatory practices as major reasons for long-term dependency of the 76.5% non-whote in the 281 cases studies. Describes typcial case as Negro woman, born in rural Georgia, separated…
Detroit's Negro Housing Problem
VF-Discrimination in Housing, 1940s
A Personal Report to the Community
Sees employment and housing discrimination continuing, police brutality lessening.
Peer Acceptance and Rejection of Negro Teachers Who Were First or among the First to be Employed in White or Predominantely White Schools North of the Mason-Dixon Line
[Jackson's Pattern of Integration] Finds community lags behind school system in racial practices.
Statement to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee in Support of an Effective Fderal FEPC, S. 692, Presented for the CIO and UAW
Includes examples and statistics on discrimination from Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission files; narrates UAW efforts to achieve equality.
The Black Athlete, A Shameful Story
Uses occasional Michigan examples, i.e. Will Robinson, Pershing High School coach (p.13-14); George Gaddy, Moore School, Detroit and Reggie Harding of the Pistons (p. 92-94) in describing discrimination in sports.
[Program for] Award Dinner Honoring Mr. Phillip Murray, Mr. Walter White, Mr. Walter P. Reuther, and Mr. Benjamin R. Epstein for their Outstanding Contribution in the Campaign to Bring Democratic Practices to the Sport of Bowling
Inside statement gives chronology of successful attempt, initiated by UAW, to eliminate descrimination in bowling.
Letter to Detroit Free Press Concerning Detroit Commission on Community Relations: Detroit, 1955
Letter, signed by Executive Secretary, bemoans weak stand of public agencies, and newspapers, on eliminating discrimination in public housing.