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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."
An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
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
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
Smash Michigan's Fifth Column
Describes elements fostering Packard hate strikes, Sojourner Truth Riots, and other divisive activities.
Smash Michigan's Fifth Column, State-Wide Conference, Detroit, August 15, to Strengthen Michigan's Unity for Victory Findings and Resolutions
Summarizes action of "three hundred delegates from one hundred and forty-six different organizations," conferring on KKK, Sojourner Truth, President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, discrimination in war plants, etc.
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.