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Discrimination in Housing in These Ten Cities
Characterizes race climate and attitudes toward housing in Detroit, one of the "ten cities."
Study of Thirty-Seven Non-Profit Camps Serving Metropolitan Detroit, 1930-1935
Two camps only serve Negro children.
Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan
One untitled chapter (pg. 117-125) describes Detroit opposition to slavery, Blackburn episode, Underground Railroad, and Faulkner Riot.
Call to Housing Conference, Maccabees Building, Woodward Avenue at Putnam, Detroit, Michigan, May 27, 1945
This Conference program includes one-page analysis of housing situation for minorities and a lengthy list of sponsors.
City in Crisis: the People and Their Riot, a Social Psychological Study of the Detroit Uprising and Its Aftermath
"Survey study of the characteristics and attitudes of arrestees, the non-participants, black and white community and the police..." in the 1967 Riot.
The Negro and Tuberculosis, pg. 227-235 of National Conference of Social Work. Proceedings, 1933.
Compares Negro and white tuberculosis incidence and death rates in Detroit.
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
Before the Ghetto: a Study of Detroit's Negroes in the 1890's
Using "census documents, city directories, newspapers, general histories of Detroit and Michigan and of the Negro" describes Negro community in Detroit up to about 1910.