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pt. 18. Detroit Hearings (Industrial Section) p. 7069-7766. Partial Contents: -Statement [and Testimony] by George Edwards, Director-Secretary, Detroit Housing Commission (p. 7239-7257) -Testimony [and Statement] of Abner E. Larned, State…
Negroes in Public Affairs and Government
Includes biographies of Charles C. Diggs, Jr., John Conyers, Ralph Bunche, Wade McCree, Charles Mahoney, Edward C. Sylvester, Jr. and others.
Official Proceedings, February 14, 15, 16, 1936, Chicago. Washington, D.C., 1936
Michigan is reported as having a vice president, Snow F. Grigsby of Detroit, members of the presiding committee, Mr. Grigsby and Thomas Solomon, and two members of the General Resolutions Committee, Dred Scott Neusom and C. LeBron Simmons.
Petition of Olney Hawkins and 300 Others, Citizens of Ann Arbor, in the County of Washtenaw, Praying That the Constitution May Be Altered so as to Admit Colored Men to the Privileges of the Elective Franchise
Gives names of the 301 Ann Arbor citizens.
Race and Representation in Detroit and the Six County Metropolitan Region: Regional Governing Bodies Methods of Selection.
Study of selection of Detroit Common Council and Detroit Board of Education confirms charge that "changed electoral structure in local government in Southeast Michigan would give minority groups fairer representation."
Report on Amending the Michigan Constitution by No Longer Requiring Electors to Be White
Majority report, favoring the change, gives some information on condition of black residents of state. .
Resolution on Federal and State Action to Secure Civil Rights, Proposed for Adoption at Mass Meeting, Sunday, January 29, 1950, Second Baptist Church
This meeting was one of several local ones preceeding and following the Washington Conference.
Statement of Clarence Anderson, Executive Secretary on September 6, 1944, before the Sub-Committee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor, in Support of S.2048.
Gives some figures on minority employment in Detroit, and cites examples of discriminatory employment practices.
Submission to the Labor Committee of the State Senate.
Describes how the proposed bill would work and includes list of nearly two hundred Council sponsors.