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From Poverty to Productivity Report on Chrysler Corporation's Minority Group Practices
Describes Chrysler efforts since World War II.
Negroes in Public Affairs and Government
Includes biographies of Charles C. Diggs, Jr., John Conyers, Ralph Bunche, Wade McCree, Charles Mahoney, Edward C. Sylvester, Jr. and others.
Some Aspects of the Relationship of Racial Discrimination to Symptoms as Shown by Negro Veterans Seen in a Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic
Presents ten case studies from Detroit Regional Office of Veterans Administration.
America's Tenth Man; a Pictorial Review of One-Tenth of a Nation, Presenting the Negro Contribution to American Life Today
Contains very slight references to or pictures of Michigan personalities.
Hooded Americanism: the First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965
pg. 194-197. White Robes on Woodward Avenue. Describes Klan influences in mid-1920s, particularly in containing Negro housing by stimulating organization of neighborhood improvement associations.
The Negro and Tuberculosis, pg. 227-235 of National Conference of Social Work. Proceedings, 1933.
Compares Negro and white tuberculosis incidence and death rates in Detroit.
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro
Volume 5: Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and West of Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica. pg. 80-88: Michigan. Quotes descriptions of cases from court reports.
The Story of Detroit
Has many references to Negroes including location of black churches, description of Underground Railroad, and of Faulkner and Blackburn riots.