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Teaching Standard English to Urban Primary Children, Final Report
Uses Detroit primary grade children in project to test effectiveness of tapes in developing their standard English dialect.
Technical and Trade Employment of Youth in the Detroit Metropolitan Area
Using Government data and employers questionnaires surveys present youth occupational distribution by race and makes recommendations
Ten Commandments of Race Relations, a Pocket Manual for Every-Day Use.
A "check list" of attitudes and actions drawn up by a group of young business and professional men.
Termination; the Closing at Baker Plant
Using fictitious names, describes an actual episode, the closing of an automobile paint factory on Detroit's westside in 1967. Presents case histories of several involved blacks, included a UAW international representative.
Testimony at the Hearing before the Business and Commerce Sub-Committee. Washington, D.C.
Describes "problems of rebuilding a city after a riot when assistance from federal and state governments is minimal."
The "Underground Railroad" in Michigan
This bound, unpublished volume available at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, contains excerpts from printed materials, replies to queries of persons still living concerning their memories of the Railroad, and other miscellany.
The A.D.C. Strengthening Family Life Series (A Pilot Project) Sponsored by the Detroit Urban League in Cooperation with the Merrill-Palmer School and Wayne County Bureau of Social Aid
Summarizes a seven-session series conducted for A.D.C. mothers. The author is a Community Services Assistant
The Accessibility of Work Places by Bus and the Employment of Inner City Workers; a Final Report to the Mayor's Committee on Human Resources Development on Phase I of the Unemployment Transportation Project
Relates employment ratios of inner city workers in nearly six hundred census tracts to available bus transportation to those areas.
The Affects of Socio-Economic Variables on Open Occupancy Votes in Three Cities
Compares Detroit's 1964 vote on open occupancy with those in Berkeley, California, and Akron, Ohio; finds "considerable uniformity of voting behavior on race-related issues."