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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.

Reproduces representative resolutions by civic leaders and organizations, newspaper clippings, etc. Includes a "dossier of documents on the Sojourner Truth project which show that Negro occupancy of the project should begin immediately."

Call shows program to include analysis of social ills and fifth column activities, statement on Riots and list of sponsors.

Debates show dissatisfaction with Michigan State Equal Rights League.

Defends nineteen members (eighteen black, one white) of the Leland unit of Amalgamated Local 205, UAW, against charges, filed by the International Executive Board, of leading a movement for decertification of the union as bargaining agent at the…

Lists members of "initiating nucleus" of the Committee: State Senator Joseph Brown, Mrs. Jeanetta Welch Brown, Ulysses Boykin, Hodges Mason, Joe Louis, Charles Boxborough, Mrs. Sara Hill Stuart, and signer of invitation, Arthur M. Bowman.

One untitled chapter (pg. 117-125) describes Detroit opposition to slavery, Blackburn episode, Underground Railroad, and Faulkner Riot.

Mentions W. Richard Carter, President, Local 49, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; and Walter Hardin, UAW.