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A Report of Immediate Needs of Public Schools in Areas Affected by Civil Disturbances of July 1967 [by] Norman Drachler, Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools
Needs include more teachers, buildings, textbooks, opening of swimming pools, instituting tutoring programs and after school programs
Appearance of the City of Detroit before the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, August 15, 1967
Contains Mayor's account of Riots; chronology of events from 3:30 a.m., July 23, 1967 to 8:55 a.m., August 15; statistical data on arrestees; summary of federal programs; demographic statistics; description of New Detroit Committee; and…
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh Reports to the People, Detroit, 1967
Reports on the state of the city during the aftermath of the Riot, and the impending teacher and automobile industry strikes
Testimony at the Hearing before the Business and Commerce Sub-Committee. Washington, D.C.
Describes "problems of rebuilding a city after a riot when assistance from federal and state governments is minimal."
Report to Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh
Reviews city services in light of Riot and recommends changes
Reporting the Detroit Riot
This description of how the Riot was reported gives much information on the Riot itself.
Racial Violence in the United States
Includes excerpts from many writings desccribing specific cases, as Detroit's two riots, and tracing patterns and trends in violence.
Riot Reactions Among Clergymen
Riots and Rebellion, Civil Violence in the Urban Community. Reports on seventy-seven interviews with Grand Rapids clergymen including five Negro Protestant ministers, on reactions to Grand Rapids Riot of July 24, 1967.
A Study of the Work of the Coordinating Committee on Democratic Human Relations in the Detroit Public Schools from September 1943 to June 1952.
Traces history of the Committee, established after 1943 riots to consider interracial relationships as affected by school or community practice.
Race Attitudes and Responses to the Riot in the Community
Captioned as "Chapter Twelve," this is apparently part of a study of the Riot