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The Negro in Detroit, a Survey of the Conditions of a Negro Group in a Northern Industrial Center During the War Prosperity Period.
Covers history, housing, employment, health, education, political activites, religion, ect.
A Program of Work for the Assimilation of Negro Immigrants in Northern Cities.
Describes operations of Detroit Urban League's Vocational Bureau.
An Exploratory Study of Some Problems of Negro In-Migrants to Detroit: Housing.
This third study of Detroit families of ten years or less, living in area bounded by Hastings, Dequindre, Canfield, and Watkings, concludes Detroit must provide better housing facilites for its lower class Begro residents (See also Ponder and Howcott…
Wayne County Plan for Project PRESCAD; Comprehensive Health Services for PREschool, School, and Adolescent Children, Renewal Application for 1967-1968.
Includes statement of objectives and progress report on plan aimed at "areas with concentration of low-income families."
Progress of the Negro Worker in the C.I.O.
Summarizes economic benefits resulting from industrial unionism.
Wayne and the Inner City: a Survey of Urban Concern.
Lists University activities in the surrounding black community.
Folklore Collected in Metropolitan Detroit by Students of Emelyn D. Gardner and Thelma G. James, at Wayne State University.
This manuscript and recent Folklore Archive annual reports, show the wide range of topics covered by its collections. Among them are oral biography, proverbs, folk songs, blues, ghost tales, games, jokes, children's lore, medicine, food and voodoo…
Negro Labor: a National Problem
Discusses in great detail, but avoiding use of personal names, racial employment practices of auto companies in World War II period.
Seniority and the Negro Worker
Explores alternate methods of dealing with seniority in the post-World War II period and considers problems of automobile industry and auto manufacturers.