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Gives many brief biographical sketches, and descriptions of churches, as well as a directory arranged by occupation.

Biography of Elizabeth Denison Forth, former slave who left her life savings to a church on Grosse Ile

p. 470-486 [The Sweet Case]

Biographies are grouped, as Public, Press and Radio, Business and Professionals, Officers of Civic and Social groups.

Describes boyhood in Detroit.

(International Library of Negro Life and History) Gives brief information on three men who received medical training in Michigan, Doctors Henry Fitzbutler, John R. Francis and Robert Boyd. Has extensive bibliography.

Reprinted in 1968, with 34-page personal name index, by John M. Green, Editor, Publisher, under title, Negroes in American History

Lists Michigan exhibitors at Lincoln Jubilee, gives biographies of various categories of Afro-Americans throughout…

Program includes excerpts from testimonial letters, and biography of honoree.

pg. 109-115: The Underground Railroad and the Kentucky Raid.
pg. 386-387: Colored Settlement.

Tells the story of the Pelham family, and career of Ben Pelham.