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Negro Community Leadership in a Northern City
Studies Negro leadership in "Lakeland" (Pontiac?) Michigan, comparing conservative, moderate, and militant styles and emphasizing housing, education, politics, employment, and police and community relations as the most crucial problem areas.
Too Old to Work - Too Young to Retire: a Case Study of a Permanent Plant Shutdown
Relation of race to unemployment is analyzed in this study of the 1957 and 1958 work experiences of five hundred former Packard employees.
Printed for the Use of the Special Committee on Unemployment Problems, 86th Congress, 1st session
Printed for the Use of the Special Committee on Unemployment Problems, 86th Congress, 1st session
A Participant Observer Evaluation of the Detroit Concentrated Employment Program
"Assesses, generally, MCHRD, and the larger CEP organization but analyze[s] New Careers and the Instructional Aide programs in greater detail"
Various paging
Various paging
The Culture of Unemployment: Some Notes on Negro Children
Concludes on basis of 1962 interview study of male children of unemployed Negro couples that the "boys do not perceive an open opportunity structure; they feel powerless in the environment, but not necessarily normless."
Excerpt from Shostak,…
Excerpt from Shostak,…
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.
"To Foster Fair Employment in Our Own Industries and to Act Vigorously in the Public Arena"
Summarizes UAW activities aimed at equal opportunity.
An excerpt from Equal Opportunity Is Good Labor Practice
An excerpt from Equal Opportunity Is Good Labor Practice
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.
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.