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Achieving Equal Opportunity in the Use of Medical Services and Hospital Facilities.
The Catalytic Role of Governmental Human Relations Agencies, by Richard V. Marks; Activities of the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Hospitals of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations, by Richard S. Emrich; The Detroit Experience in the…
Board Undertakes Negro Survey
First of a three-part "comprehensive study of the Negro problem" includes map showing sections in which Negroes live.
Social Reasons Bring Negroes to Detroit.
Third article gives reasons "for the Negro leaving the South, chiefly Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, and coming to Detroit in preference to other cities."
Background of Race Riots [Series]
Contents: Planning Indicated in City Race Riots, p.1+; Local, International Plot Clues Plentiful, p. 1+; Oriental Influence in Riot Background, p. 13; Race Riots Brewing Years before Break, p.3; Anti-Semitism Cited as a Prelude to Riot, p. 7; Norris…
Administration of Justice in the Wake of the Detroit Civil Disorder of July 1967.
Concludes "there was no justifiable reason for the inadequate procedures (to safeguard civil rights) utilized in Detroit."
Detroit: Notes of a Guerilla Uprising.
Describes the Riot weekend and its aftermath.
The Underground Railroad.
Typical journey on the Underground Railroad is described.
The Social and Political Reactions of Older Negroes to Unemployment.
Compares "labor market experiences and consequent social-political adjustment of Negroes and whites, unemployed as result of Packard Motor Car Company close-down of June 1956."
The Detroit Rioters and Looters Committed to Prison.
The sociologist and the psychologist at Jackson Prison report on studies of ninety-seven Negroes, eight whites committed after the 1943 Riot. Reprinted as pg. 298-304 of Grimshaw, Allen D. Racial Violence in the United States. Chicago, Aldine, 1969.