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The Grim Facts (a Survey of a Few of the Instances of Violence against the Negro People as Reported in the Press): Michigan
Summarizes several instances of violence, some growing out of the Sojourner Truth Riots.
Detroit
Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.
New World A-Comin'; inside Black America
Briefly describes Sojourner Truth Riot from view-point of "Black Cabinet," advisors to President Roosevelt
Racial Problems in Housing
In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot
An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
To Stem This Tide, a Survey of Racial Tension Areas in the United States
Presents "factual data covering a wide range of tension areas," among them employment of Negro women (pg. 11) and upgrading of black workers in war plants (pg. 13-14), Sojourner Truth Housing Project (pg. 50-59), and Detroit police brutality (pg.…
The Racial Policies of the Detroit Housing Commission and Their Administration
Examines "how and why [the Commission's] present racial policies developed," and the Commission role in the Sojourner Truth Riot.
Letter to Federal Works Agency Administrator re Sojourner Truth Defense Housing Project
Protests instructions to Detroit Housing Commission to accept applications from whites
The Sojourner Truth Defense Homes, Some Pertinent Facts
Reproduces representative resolutions by civic leaders and organizations, newspaper clippings, etc. Includes a "dossier of documents on the Sojourner Truth project which show that Negro occupancy of the project should begin immediately."