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A Guide to Negro History in America
Michigan. This state-by state directory of cities to which Negroes made large contributions lists, with reasons, Addison, Battle Creek, Cassopolis, Darborn, Detroit, Marshall, Muskegon, and Vandalia.
Huge Rally Protests Discrimination: Bi-racial Outpouring in Detroit Cheers Pleas for Job and Decent Treatment; "Cadillac Charter" of Rights Adopted
Gives text of "charter."
The Negro in the Course of Study of the High School.
Color distribution of students and teachers, status of Negro history, and number of relevant books in library is reported for Northwestern and Miller.
A Report of Immediate Needs of Public Schools in Areas Affected by Civil Disturbances of July 1967 [by] Norman Drachler, Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools
Needs include more teachers, buildings, textbooks, opening of swimming pools, instituting tutoring programs and after school programs
Report from Detroit
Riot and its aftermath.
Reaction to the Slaying of Martin Luther King
That Detroit had no riots following King's assassination is evidence that much was learned from the 1967 Riot.
A History of the Rouge-Ecorse United Centers
Gives history of the Rouge-Ecorse United Centers and their predecessor agencies
Southern Negro Storytellers
Reports field trips to Calvin township, Benton Harbor and nearby Covert, Inkster, and Idlewild, in search of storytellers and tales.
Negro Tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Calvin, Michigan.
Presents biographical information on the Calvin story-teller, James Douglas Suggs.
Negro Folktales in Michigan
Gives much detail of living conditions when describing setting in which various tales were narrated.