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About Our Golden Years, 1916-1966
Traces 50 years' history of the League.
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.
America's Tenth Man; a Pictorial Review of One-Tenth of a Nation, Presenting the Negro Contribution to American Life Today
Contains very slight references to or pictures of Michigan personalities.
A Negro Eye-Witness Describes Anti-Negro Violence in Detroit, p. 176-177 of Cain, Alfred E., ed. The Winding Road to Freedom; a Documentary Survey of Negro Experiences in America
(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."
Oratory of Negro Leaders, 1900-1968
Has several paragraphs each on Prophet James Francis Jones, and Lillian Wheeler Smith.
Any Place But Here
This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.
The Chronological History of the Negro in America
Includes many events of significance for Detroit and Michigan.
Survey of the Negro Convention Movement, 1830-1861
p. 81-82 [Convention of Colored Citizens of Michigan, 1843]
Short Negro History of Flint
Mentions many individuals, as oldest Flint families, ministers, first members of organized labor, barbers, club women, and their groupings.