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UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.

Stresses need to preserve materials on local black history, and suggests how to find material now available in archives.

Reports interview with Police Commissioner Girardin, Rev. Albert Cleage, and Richard Henry.
pg. 47-60: "Riot" or War?
pg. 116-133: Guerrillas

Compares "labor market experiences and consequent social-political adjustment of Negroes and whites, unemployed as result of Packard Motor Car Company close-down of June 1956."

"Written shortly after [the author] had concluded six years' work organizing and serving block clubs"

Reproduces representative resolutions by civic leaders and organizations, newspaper clippings, etc. Includes a "dossier of documents on the Sojourner Truth project which show that Negro occupancy of the project should begin immediately."

This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.

pg. 16-46: Malcolm X's Life. Malcolm lived at Lansing, Mason, and Detroit.

Paper presented at 1966 State-wide Conference on Civil Rights.

Has many references to Negroes including location of black churches, description of Underground Railroad, and of Faulkner and Blackburn riots.