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Youth Attitudes toward the Police and Law Enforcement: a Conceptual Analysis.
Hostility toward police is not widespread, although most important variable in attitudes toward police is race, in Muskegon Heights, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo.
This I Believe
An Episcopal Bishop describes his childhood in Grand Rapids. A one-page biography of Burgess precedes his essay.
The Negro Population of Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1940; A Social Study Conducted for the Interracial Committee of the Council of Social Agencies
Analyzes "ecomomic setting, employment, relief and emergency work, housing, health, hosptials, insurance, crime and juvenille delinquency, education, Negro business and professional pursuits, churches and social agencies," by means of interviews with…
The Negro of Grand Rapids
[Paper given before the Class in Religion and Life of All Soul's Church] Summarizes accomplishments despite many obstacles in employment, education, housing.
The Negro in Grand Rapids, 1840-1956
Lists many individuals, as ministers, homeowners, firsts in various employment cateogries; describes several interracial episodes, evidently using newspapers as sources.
The Effects of White and Non-White Population Changes in the Central City, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1950-1960. A Report to the Grand Rapids Human Relations Commission, April 1961
Compares failure, or non-promotion percentages for all schools with those for schools with 73% or more of non-white students -- ration is 6.4 to 11.87.
The Battered City Syndrome, Urban Problems Workshop, April 16, 1969
Includes text of speeches by panelists at the workshop on urban problems.
Survey of the Negro Population of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Not examined; file copy available for use at National Urban League Offices in New York
