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The Negro in Detroit [Series]
Contents: 500,000 Strive for Elusive Goals; Criminal Rate Top Problem; Vast Differences in School Impact.
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.
The Negro in Detroit. Prepared for the Mayor's Interracial Committee by a Special Survey Staff under the General Direction of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, Inc.
Using data of 1925, gives factual information on Negro in Detroit in following areas: population; industry; thrift and business; housing; health; recreation; education; crime; religion; community organization; and welfare.
The Negro in Grand Rapids, 1840-1956
Lists many individuals, as ministers, homeowners, firsts in various employment cateogries; describes several interracial episodes, evidently using newspapers as sources.
The Negro in Medicine
Joseph Ferguson and son, John C., and a Chicago doctor born in Ypsilanti, George C. Hall, are among subjects of biographies.
The Negro in Michigan, an Archival Survey of the Burton Historical Collection
Lists some personal, organizational and miscellaneous collections in which are historical items, as letters, manumission papers, depositions.
The Negro in Southwestern Michigan; Negroes in the North in a Rural Environment
Presents educational and economic data, history, names of past and present residents, active social agencies of political subdivisions in parts of Allegan, Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties.
The Negro in Sports.
Narrates exploits of Eugene Beatty, Booker Brooks, De Hart Hubbard, Benjamin Goode, Harry C. Graves, Joe Louis, Percy Stanley Simmons, Gideon Smith, Eddie Tolan, Allen Wesley, Willis Ward, William Watson, and Sports writer Russ Cowan.
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.