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Negro Voters Jolt Detroit
Assesses significance of 1965 city elections.
The Most Unusual Candidate in Town: A Black New-Left Republican
Eugene Beauregard, 13th district candidate for Congress.
Negro Politics: the Search for Leadership
Includes a short synopsis of Negro influence in Detroit political life.
Rule Nine: Politics, Administration and Civil Rights
Studies "the accomplishment of anti-discrimination policy by means of rule-making powers" in this account of the overturning of discriminatory real estate practices white support from NAACP and other in Grosse Pointe suburbs
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.
The Poor People's Campaign
Describes campaign objectives and Detroit contacts.
Negro Community Leadership in a Northern City
Studies Negro leadership in "Lakeland" (Pontiac?) Michigan, comparing conservative, moderate, and militant styles and emphasizing housing, education, politics, employment, and police and community relations as the most crucial problem areas.
Big City Mayors: the Crisis of Urban Politics
On Racial Rioting in Detroit. Gives text of interview with Mayor Cavanagh on "Meet the Press" on July 30, 1967
Urban Growth and Problems, Report to Governor George Romney
After studying such factors as population movement and charateristics in state's ten standard metropolitan areas, make recommendations on government structure, manpower development and utilization, housing, transportation, public finance. Staff…