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Victory
Through reproductions of newspaper stories and pictures gives background of UAW recognition by Ford Motor Company in 1941. Pictures of Negroes point up their role in organizing drive.
Uncle Tom is Dead, Full Text of Address Delivered at the Founding Convention of the National Negro Labor Council at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 1951.
Gives text of talk by Secretary of Ford Local 600 and President of the Council.
To All Negro Ford Workers
Urges CIO vote at upcoming Ford representation elections. Carries statements by five black Ford workers: Shelton Tappes, Walter B. Morgan, Veal Clough, Tanner T. Perry, and Al Johnson
To All Ford Workers, Negro and White
Two State Senators urge a vote for CIO in upcoming Ford elections called by NLRB.
The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case
This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.
The Role of the Negro in the Organization of the C.I.O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.
The Political Status of the Negro.
Describes Negro's shift of allegiance from Republican to Democratic Party, influence of church, and of the Ford Motor Company on Negro politics, and gerrymandering of wards with large Negro concentration.
Statement of Citizens in the Ford Strike
Typed original of this mimeographed statement bears signature of Rev. Charles A. Hill. Statement stresses importance to the Negro community of winning the strike.
Report Submitted to the Constituational Convention
Beginning with 1947 regularly includes report from Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination; 1939, Negro Workers, p. 33-34; 1941 [Negro leaders and workers in the Ford victory] p. 22-23; 1946. Fair practices Committee, p.40-45