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To Master - a Long Goodnight, the Story of Uncle Tom, a Historical Narrative.
In narrating the life of Josiah Henson, introduces the reader to the historical connections between Michigan and the Windsor-Chatham area.
Schools and Inequality: a Study of Social Status, School Services, Student Performance and Post-School Opportunity in Michigan
Considers causes and consequences of unequal educational conditions in Michigan school districts.
Job Seeking and Work Experiences of 16-21 Year Old Out-of-School Youth in a Poor Negro Neighborhood
Considers also, effectiveness of organizations aiding job-seeking youth, and these youth's attitudes toward further training.
Planning Services for the Aged, II. In the Local Community
A "Friendly Hearts?" Program for aged at Brewester Recreation Center becomes model for city-wide program.
Official History of Freemasonry among the Colored People in North America
Chapter 27. Freemasonry in Michigan - 1859.
Racial Violence in the United States
Includes excerpts from many writings desccribing specific cases, as Detroit's two riots, and tracing patterns and trends in violence.
White Hypocrisy and Black Lethargy
Using both statistics and case histories, illustrates many inequalities in employment, distribution of patronage and of justice, insurance rates, public accomodations.
Taps or Reveille?
"Written to bring the reader some interesting background information, historical and current." Some essays deal with local subjects, as schools and city politics.
Ambitions That Could Not Be Fenced In
Gives brief biographies of many black Detroiters.
Black Rage
Summarizes many case studies of black with unspecified residence. Since one of the co-authors practiced psychiatry in Detroit for many years, many of cases must be of Detroiters.