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Along the Color Line: Detroit's New "Y".
A one-paragraph article notes the opening of the new Lucy Thurman Branch of the YWCA.
Along the Color Line: the Eighth Commandment.
Detroit Civic Rights Committee issues thirteen commandments to Detroit Negroes.
American Tragedy, 1967-Detroit.
Appears also as pg. 126-137 of Bosken, Joseph, Urban racial Violence in the Twentieth Century. Beverly Hills, Calif., Glencoe Press, 1969.
America's Largest Negro Super Mart; Detroit Grocer Got Start during Depression Selling Chitterlings from Door to Door.
Allen Super Market in Inkster.
America's Largest Privately Owned Hospital (Negro).
Describes Bethesda and Edyth K. Thomas Memorial Hospitals comprising Thomas Hospital Center.
America's 100 Richest Negroes; Many Solid Gold Millionaires Are among Top Moneymakers in Business, Professions.
Includes Thomas, Burton and Bell families of Detroit and McNeills of Pontiac.
Articles on the Relationship of Law to the Problems Raised by the Civil Disorders. Summer of 1967.
Partial Contents: Smith, John W. and Smith, Lois H. First Amendment Freedoms and the Politics of Mass Participation; Komisaruk, Richard and Pearson, Carol E. Children of the Detroit Riots; Handley, Jame R. The Dynamics of Recent Ghetto Riots; Corsi,…
Auto Worker' Union against Jim Crow.
Homer Martin's letter stating his union "will not tolerate segregation and will fight for the rights of Negro workers in every way," is quoted.
The Battle That's Brewing: the Blacks vs. the Mafia.
Uses examples from the Detroit area to show the Mafia's influence in perpetuating the ghetto.
Black 'Capitalism,' Some Hardhitting Answers from 3 Detroit Leaders on the Goals and Tactics of Their Economic Drive.
Reporters question Charles Morton, Hank Rogers and Walter McMurtry on economic goals of the black community.