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Committee Roundup: Detroit Riot
Summarizes testimony of Romney before the Senate Committee investigating the Riots.
Brown Mayors: Unofficial Negro 'Mayors' Elected in Regular Polls and Often Function as Chief Consultants on Racial Affairs for White City Officials.
Included in listing is Detroit's Chester a Rentie, Mayor of Paradise Valley since 1939, whose "biggest drive has been against crime in the Negro area."
Report from Port Huron; from Grand Rapids
Tells of essay contest in Port Huron and protest of candidacy of Harry C. White for City Commission of Grand Rapids.
The Poor People's Campaign
Describes campaign objectives and Detroit contacts.
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.