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Social and Political Reactions to the Slavery Question in Kalamazoo
Papers from the History Seminar v.18, Kalamazoo College. Describes some slave escapes, and underground railroad activities, citing Kalamazoo Gazette as chief information source.
Short Negro History of Flint
Mentions many individuals, as oldest Flint families, ministers, first members of organized labor, barbers, club women, and their groupings.
Record, First Michigan Colored Infantry, Civil War, 1861-1865
Military history (i.e. name, residence, dates of enlistment) of more than 1700 Michigan residents. Kalamazoo Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers V.46
Radical as Liberal; the Evolution of Labor Radicalism in the UAW.
History of UAW, particularly Local 212, emphasizing relationship of Negro workers to the union. Chapter 7. Race, Class and Labor. p.123-144
Progress of a Race; or the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro, from the Bondage of Slavery, Ignorance, and Poverty to the Freedom of Citizenship, Intelligence, Affluence, Honor and Trust
p.346-347. Carrothers, James Davis. Carrothers was a Baptist minister and writer, born in Calvin, Michigan.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Held in Detroit, Michigan, October 24-26, 1952.
Lists names of Detroiters participating in the program or making arrangements for the Conference.
Political Parties in Michigan, 1837-1860; an Historical Study of Political Issues and Parties in Michigan from the Admission of the State to the Civil War.
Describes several fugitive slave episodes and their political consequences.
Oratory of Negro Leaders, 1900-1968
Has several paragraphs each on Prophet James Francis Jones, and Lillian Wheeler Smith.
Official History of Freemasonry among the Colored People in North America
Chapter 27. Freemasonry in Michigan - 1859.
Observations on Community Life
Author, on grant from Fund for Adult Education, visits community leaders in several cities; in Detroit meets Mary Ann Davis, Beulah Whitby, Iris Cox, Prophet (Dr. James F.) Jones, Ulysses Boykin, Cora Brown, Glady Johnson, the Thomas family, John…