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Gives history and description of the practices in Detroit's Negro community.

Using questionnaires and interviews, compiles such data as types of work, conditions of labor, hours, methods of pay, discriminatory practices toward Negro workers, relationship with unions.

Examines attitudes of mothers in a near east-side Detroit area.

(Appears also under title, Michigan and the Emancipation Proclamations in Michigan in Books 5:127-136. Winter 1963) (Reprinted as p. 72-94 of Rose, Arnold M. ed. Assuring Freedom to the Free, a Century of Emancipation in the U.S.A. Detroit, Wayne…

Volume 1 of this unindexed work describes sale of slaves (p. 196); legislation on slavery (p. 227-228); colored schools (p. 743). Includes chapter on slavery and the underground railroad (p. 475-484).

Examines origins, typical services, ritual, and finances; and gives other data on spiritualist churches, 1934-1935.

Presents miscellaneous data, as number of churches by denomination, building ownership status, geographical distribution and migrations status of members, church sponsored activities and narrative materials on store-front and spiritualist churches.

(Appears also, as p. 501-502 of Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York, Citadel, 1951) Gives text of "Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863."

Analyzes open occupancy elections in Akron, Berkeley and Detroit.

Includes descriptions of Blackburn and Faulkner Riots, with citations from newspapers and contemporary documents.