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Voting Behavior in a Metropolitan Area
Analyzes Detroit voting patterns from 1930 to 1938 by race or ethnic group and by income.
Urban Violence
The Detroit Riot of 1943
Unemployment among Negroes: Activities of the National Urban League, Data on 25 Industrial Centers
One brief paragraph on Detroit states that the 4,500 Negro families receiving doles are 27% of the total families on relief.
Twenty-Five Years of Negro Activity in Detroit
Summarizes economic, social, cultural life of Detroit Negro from 1910-1934
Truce in Detroit
Assesses social climate of Detroit in weeks following the Riot.
Toy Must Go!
Condemns Detroit Police Department and its Commissioner, Harry S. Toy, for anti-Negro and anti-union violence.
To Stem This Tide, a Survey of Racial Tension Areas in the United States
Presents "factual data covering a wide range of tension areas," among them employment of Negro women (pg. 11) and upgrading of black workers in war plants (pg. 13-14), Sojourner Truth Housing Project (pg. 50-59), and Detroit police brutality (pg.…
To Establish a National Commission on Negro History and Culture, Hearing on H.R. 12962
p. 81-99 [Testimony, Exhibits, and] Statement of Dr. Charles H. Wright, President, International Afro American Museum, Inc., Detroit, Michigan
Then Freedom Came: Detroit and the Emancipation Proclamation
Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.