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Black Muslims and the Police
Makes brief references to Detroit origin of the Muslims.
The Ferndale Drop Out Study, a Comparative Analysis of Values, Attitudes and School Achievements of Negro and White Youth in a Suburban Area of Detroit. Part 1. Purpose, Sitting and Study Procedures
One of six studies, presenting results of interviews of selected drop-outs, black and white, from Lincoln High School, Ferndale, comparing them with Negro graduates as to family, school, work, occupational aspirations, values, neighborhood and…
The Initial Admission of Negro Students to the University of Michigan
Pieces together the story of two black students of 1868.
The Mackinac Register
"Register [of the parish at Michilimackinac] is the first written record of slaves in Michigan: it shows sixteen slave baptismal entries [and] the marriage sacrament to two slaves."
The Truth About the Detroit Riot
Reprinted as p. 421- 438 of Moon, Bucklin, ed. Primer for White Folds, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1945
Residential Relocation Survey: a Case Study of Highway Relocation in Michigan
Documents activities concerned with relocation of some three hundred Negro families displaced by construction of Interstate 496 through Lansing.
Interstate 496; Residential Relocation Survey
Describes dislocations resulting from construction of highway in predominantly black area of city. Not examined.
"I Knew It Was Coming."
Sixteen-year old girl describes the 1967 Riot.