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Civil Rights in Housing in Michigan
Explains how present housing patterns in Detroit and Michigan were developed
Negro Housing; Report of the Committee on Negro Housing
Quotes from Negro in Detroit; summarizes and comments on Sweet case.
A Study of Ten Inter-Cultural Areas in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Made under the Supervision of the Community Organization Committee.
Reports information secured through interviews on employment and housing conditions in parts of city having largest Negro populations. Finds conditions vastly improved over 1940, but much yet to be achieved.
The Economics of Housing Segregation
Compares Detroit and Chicago housing patterns and resident characteristics
Aged and Alone in Detroit, a Service-Study of the Health and Welfare Needs of Aged Persons Who Live Alone in the Central Part of Detroit.
Study covers persons living in a public housing project, in low-cost downtown hotels and rooming houses, and in their own homes. Groups were about equally divided, black and white.
Negroes in Kalamazoo, a Local Self-Survey
Survey directed by Fisk University shows restricted employment opportunities, particularly in paper and chemical manufactures and growing segregation in housing, education, use of public agencies.
Racial Problems in Housing
In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot
Proceedings, Third Urban Renewal Institute, Detroit, MI, November 29-30, 1956
Excerpts from briefs presented by Urgan League representatives from Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, give data on housing, and impact of urban renewal