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Detroit
Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.
Letter to Federal Works Agency Administrator re Sojourner Truth Defense Housing Project
Protests instructions to Detroit Housing Commission to accept applications from whites
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.
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.…
An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
Racial Problems in Housing
In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot
New World A-Comin'; inside Black America
Briefly describes Sojourner Truth Riot from view-point of "Black Cabinet," advisors to President Roosevelt
A Letter to Her Soldier Husband
Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."
The Truth About Sojourner Truth Homes For Negro Defense Workers
Broadside summarizes background of dispute, and lists groups supporting black occupancy of project.