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Black-Red Conference, January 12, 1969, Report...
Summarizes papers and discussions at a conference of Detroit area workers called by News and Letters
Black Workers Protest U.A.W. Racism. March on Cobo Hall.
Announces upcoming demonstration at UAW Special Convention, November 8 and 9, 1969.
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
Black Utopia; Negro Communal Experiments in America
Chapter 6. The Refugee Home Society; Factionalism on the Detroit Frontier. P. 109-122. Describes founding and operation of a Michigan organization, Refugee Home Society, which bought land in Windsor area of Canada in 1851 for settlement of Negroes.
Black Rage
Summarizes many case studies of black with unspecified residence. Since one of the co-authors practiced psychiatry in Detroit for many years, many of cases must be of Detroiters.
Black Power--an Advocate Defines It
Advocates for black community, becoming "a nation within a nation," rather than looking, acting, talking "like the enemy".
Black Neighbors: Negroes in a Northern Rural Community.
Gives historical and current information on a "stable and egalitarian" community, biracial for more than a century, Cass County Michigan.
Black Nationalism: a Search for an Identity in America
Gives brief account of Detroit activities of Noble Drew Ali, and of Master Wallace Fard Muhammad.
Black Muslims and the Police
Makes brief references to Detroit origin of the Muslims.
Black Mass Revolt, a News and Letters Committees Publication
Interprets significance of 1967 Riot from viewpoint of black workers.