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How a Minority Can Change Society, the Real Potential of the American Afro-American Struggle
(Printed originally in the International Socialist Review 25:34. Spring 1964) Contains text of speech given in January, 1964, at Midwest Educational Conference of the Young Socialist Alliance. Answers criticisms of formation of Freedom Now Party.
Interstate 496; Residential Relocation Survey
Describes dislocations resulting from construction of highway in predominantly black area of city. Not examined.
Residential Relocation Survey: a Case Study of Highway Relocation in Michigan
Documents activities concerned with relocation of some three hundred Negro families displaced by construction of Interstate 496 through Lansing.
The Ferndale Drop Out Study, a Comparative Analysis of Values, Attitudes and School Achievements of Negro and White Youth in a Suburban Area of Detroit. Part 1. Purpose, Sitting and Study Procedures
One of six studies, presenting results of interviews of selected drop-outs, black and white, from Lincoln High School, Ferndale, comparing them with Negro graduates as to family, school, work, occupational aspirations, values, neighborhood and…
Peter Pan, Michigan's First Cooperative Nursery School
Tells of the founding of the school in 1936, and its early history.
The Relationship Between Selected Socio-economic Variables and Voting on Open Occupancy Issues in Three American Cities
Analyzes open occupancy elections in Akron, Berkeley and Detroit.
The Negro of Grand Rapids
[Paper given before the Class in Religion and Life of All Soul's Church] Summarizes accomplishments despite many obstacles in employment, education, housing.
Socialization Experiences and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Urban Negroes as Related to Use of Selected Southern Foods and Medical Remedies
Describes migration to Lansing during World War II. Finds migrated Lansing Negro women, on growing affluent, drop their Southern cooking and medical habits.
A Negro Eye-Witness Describes Anti-Negro Violence in Detroit, p. 176-177 of Cain, Alfred E., ed. The Winding Road to Freedom; a Documentary Survey of Negro Experiences in America
(Appears also, as p. 501-502 of Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York, Citadel, 1951) Gives text of "Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863."