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Mentions W. Richard Carter, President, Local 49, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; and Walter Hardin, UAW.

One untitled chapter (pg. 117-125) describes Detroit opposition to slavery, Blackburn episode, Underground Railroad, and Faulkner Riot.

Committee, of which Dr. Remus Robinson is a member, recommends more foster care for Negro children, using more Negroes in health services, interracial councils in all areas with Negro population, and more attention to minority problems in social…

Lists members of "initiating nucleus" of the Committee: State Senator Joseph Brown, Mrs. Jeanetta Welch Brown, Ulysses Boykin, Hodges Mason, Joe Louis, Charles Boxborough, Mrs. Sara Hill Stuart, and signer of invitation, Arthur M. Bowman.

Defends nineteen members (eighteen black, one white) of the Leland unit of Amalgamated Local 205, UAW, against charges, filed by the International Executive Board, of leading a movement for decertification of the union as bargaining agent at the…

Debates show dissatisfaction with Michigan State Equal Rights League.

Gives many brief biographical sketches, and descriptions of churches, as well as a directory arranged by occupation.

Includes twenty case studies covering period from October 1946 to October 1948.

Studies assigned readings in Wayne's College of Liberal Arts, and attempts from 1963-1968 to institute black literature courses.