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The Relationship Between Selected Socio-economic Variables and Voting on Open Occupancy Issues in Three American Cities
Analyzes open occupancy elections in Akron, Berkeley and Detroit.
Peter Pan, Michigan's First Cooperative Nursery School
Tells of the founding of the school in 1936, and its early history.
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…
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.
How a Minority Can Change Society, the Real Potential of the American Afro-American Struggle
(Printed originally in the International Socialist Review 25:34. Spring 1964) Contains text of speech given in January, 1964, at Midwest Educational Conference of the Young Socialist Alliance. Answers criticisms of formation of Freedom Now Party.
The Development of the Detroit Police Department in the Nineteenth Century
Includes descriptions of Blackburn and Faulkner Riots, with citations from newspapers and contemporary documents.
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church
Chapter 11. St. Matthew's Church, Detroit, Michigan, p. 117-120
Social Service Offered the Acutely Ill
Studies nature of the social service offered to ninety active non-white male cases known to Detroit Department of Public Welfare as of March 1949 where acute illness is the principal problem.