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Your House on Alger Street...the Gordy Case
Describes Gordy case and its background, and similar episodes of the past.
Eisenhower, Brownell, and the Congress: the Tangled Origins of the Civil Rights Bill of 1956-1957
Makes occasional references to work of Charles D. Diggs, Jr. in securing passage of Act. Case Study 80 in the Inter-University Case Program Series..
The American Revolution, Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook
Detroit auto-worker attacks unions and business-dominated society.
Directors Amplify decision on Detroit Property Owners Ordinance Referendum
Detroit Bar President quotes from civil rights resolutions of both American Bar and Michigan Bar in giving background of action toward securing injunction against referendum.
Report on Detroit Police Department Policy of "Arrests for Investigation"
(Reprinted as p.505-509 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960 and December 15, 1960. Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1961) After considering Police Department's Defenses, reiterates opposition…
Extending Democracy
Diggs Civil Rights Act, recently passed by Michigan Legislature
The Civil Rights Commission: 1957-1965
Summary of 1960 hearings in Detroit (p.125-127) contains some reference to police-community relations.
Minutes of the State Convention Held in the City of Detroit on the 26th & 27th of October, 1843, for the Purpose of Considering Their Moral and Political Condition as Citizens of the State.
Members of the Planning Committee, composed of William Lambert, William C. Monroe, Henry Jackson, F. Delaney and O.P. Hoyt, are among those attending the convention.
Attention Citizens, the President of the United States Has Called upon the Military Forces of the United States to Aid in Suppression of Civil Insurrection and All Good Citizens to Aid in Preserving the Public Peace
Broadside distributed during 1943 Riot.
Conflict and Change in Negro-White Relations in Great Falls
Studies both internal dynamics and external accomplishments of several civil rights groups in Grand Rapids 1961-1964. Notes that all may work effectively if at least one threatens or precipitates change.