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Henry Ford and the Negro People
Citing several examples, alleges jobs at Ford Motor Company for Negroes are largely undesirable, unhealthful, poorly paid, and used for coercive purposes.
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.
Business Reclaims Human Resources
Summarizes efforts and success of Ford, Chrysler, and GM in employing "hard core" unemployed.
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
A Letter to Her Soldier Husband
Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."
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.
Proportion of Colored Employees in Each Building, Rouge Plant, 10/5/37
Includes one page entitled "Colored Count in Tool Rooms"
Negro Organization at Ford's, Section 5 of UAW
Three page account of the 1941 Ford Strike by UAW Director of Negro Organizational Activities.
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.