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The Automobile Unions and Negro Labor.
Surveys Negro participation in UAW local unions and the International.
Negro Bids for Union Power
Lists reasons for formation of Negro American Labor Council, and pressures within UAW for Negro membership on UAW Executive Board.
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
The Role of the Negro in the Organization of the C.I.O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.
We Open the Gates
p.23-28. The Price of Brotherhood. Gives examples of UAW efforts to eliminate discrimination in employment in metropolitan Detroit.
Union Guy
Includes brief description of the UAW 1943 convention fight on issue of Negro board members.
Negro Organization at Ford's, Section 5 of UAW
Three page account of the 1941 Ford Strike by UAW Director of Negro Organizational Activities.
The UAW and Walter Reuther
Makes reference to racial composition of Detroit, housing problems, and relationship of Negro to union. Contains vivid description of 1943 Race Riot.
Black Workers Protest U.A.W. Racism. March on Cobo Hall.
Announces upcoming demonstration at UAW Special Convention, November 8 and 9, 1969.
A Statement to Detroit Youth.
Urges positive post-Riot program, including implementation of "Eight Point Program of 'Immediate and Effective Community Action' Proposed by R.J. Thomas, President UAW-CIO." Includes program text.