The Grim Facts (a Survey of a Few of the Instances of Violence against the Negro People as Reported in the Press): Michigan
Violence
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Riots
Summarizes several instances of violence, some growing out of the Sojourner Truth Riots.
Equal Justice
1942
1500
16:7. Summer 1942.
Detroit
Black Legion
Detroit (Michigan)
Ku Klux Klan
Race riots
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.
Carter, Elmer A.
1942
Opportunity
Journal
1285
20:130-131. May 1942.
New World A-Comin'; inside Black America
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Riot
Briefly describes Sojourner Truth Riot from view-point of "Black Cabinet," advisors to President Roosevelt
Ottley, Roi
Wayne State University
New York, Houghton Mifflin
1943
Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2643023~S47
892
364 pages
Racial Problems in Housing
Detroit (Michigan)
Housing
Riots
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot
National Urban League
Detroit Public Library
New York, Astoria Press
1944
855
pg. 17-19
An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Community relations
Ford Motor Company
Riots
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
United Automobile Workers (UAW)
Police
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
Myrdal, Gunnar
Wayne State University
New York, Harper and Row
c. 1962
Also located at: Catalog entry (University of Quebec - catalog in French): http://virtuolien.uqam.ca/tout/UQAM_BIB001026596
817
1483 pages
To Stem This Tide, a Survey of Racial Tension Areas in the United States
Detroit (Michigan)
Police
Race relations
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Women
World War II
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. 79-80)
Johnson, Charles S. and Associates
Wayne State University
Boston and Chicago: Pilgrim Press
1943
Also located at: Catalog entry (Detroit Public Library): https://detp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:47015/one
592
142 pages
The Racial Policies of the Detroit Housing Commission and Their Administration
Detroit (Michigan)
Housing
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Examines "how and why [the Commission's] present racial policies developed," and the Commission role in the Sojourner Truth Riot.
Jenkins, Bette Smith
Detroit
1950
Wayne State University
Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2639807~S47
Thesis, MPA
587
175 pages
Letter to Federal Works Agency Administrator re Sojourner Truth Defense Housing Project
Housing
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Protests instructions to Detroit Housing Commission to accept applications from whites
Jeffries, Edward (mayor)
Wayne State University
1942
Letter
277
1 page
"We Shall Not Be Moved," a Summary of the Sojouner Truth Home Battle
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
Current, Gloster B.
Wayne State University
Detroit
1942
186
5 pages
The Sojourner Truth Defense Homes, Some Pertinent Facts
Sojourner Truth Housing Project
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."
Detroit Public Library
Detroit
1942
Civil Rights Federation
148
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