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Hooded Americanism: the First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965
pg. 194-197. White Robes on Woodward Avenue. Describes Klan influences in mid-1920s, particularly in containing Negro housing by stimulating organization of neighborhood improvement associations.
Housing for Negroes is a War Measure: a Few Facts on the Present Situation
Uses statistics to show housing need, and vacant acreage, population, and employment in each suburb.
A Report on the Algonquin Housing Project
Describes history and status of the proposed Negro veterans' temporary housing project, about 1.3 miles east of Waterworks Park, approved by the Algonquin Park Playfield Association.
Call to Housing Conference, Maccabees Building, Woodward Avenue at Putnam, Detroit, Michigan, May 27, 1945
This Conference program includes one-page analysis of housing situation for minorities and a lengthy list of sponsors.
An Equal Housing Opportunity Study, Summary of Findings Concerning Negro and Spanish-American minorities, in respect to Housing and Community Facility Services
This publication, on file in publisher's office, was not examined.
Discrimination in Housing in These Ten Cities
Characterizes race climate and attitudes toward housing in Detroit, one of the "ten cities."
Be It Ever So Tumbled - The Story of a Suburban Slum
Includes statistics and excerpts from interviews of residents in a Negro area near Eight Mile Road.
Attorney for the Damned
pg. 229-263. You Can't Live There! The Sweet Case, Detroit, 1926.