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Lists grave of Sojourner Truth in Battle Creek; Underground Railroad marker near Cassopolis; Douglas-Brown marker in Detroit; and Crosswhite boulder in Marshall. 3rd ed.

Gives brief information (name, address, list of officers, occasionally pictures of headquarters) on churches, greek letter, fraternal, secret, and women's organization. Lists Negro owned businesses.

Negro History Week has been celebrated since 1926 by the Association, since 1946 by the Committee.

Contains only brief references to Negroes except for 1943 Riot which is described in some detail.

Mentions many individuals, as oldest Flint families, ministers, first members of organized labor, barbers, club women, and their groupings.

p. 81-82 [Convention of Colored Citizens of Michigan, 1843]

Includes many events of significance for Detroit and Michigan.

This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.

Has several paragraphs each on Prophet James Francis Jones, and Lillian Wheeler Smith.

(Appears also, as p. 501-502 of Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York, Citadel, 1951) Gives text of "Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863."