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A Negro Congressman Speaks
Text of speech before the House of Representatives. March 31, 1955
A New Face in Politics
Discusses upset victory of John Conyers, Jr. in Detroit's First Congressional District.
A Report on the Politics of Detroit
(Report on Politics in Various Cities, v.12) Part 4. Negroes. P. 25-47.
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
Black Caucuses in the Unions
Contrasts TULC and League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Discusses latter's history and program.
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."
Committee Roundup: Detroit Riot
Summarizes testimony of Romney before the Senate Committee investigating the Riots.
Detroit Would be Twenty Years Ahead with George Crockett as Councilman; Register and Vote Primary, Sept. 14th
Campaign literature reprinting twenty-two of Crockett's columns, "Labor Looks Ahead," from the Michigan Chronicle of 1945-1946
