Discusses implications of two conferences, Detroit Policy Conference of March on Washington Movement, September 26-27, 1942, and NAACP Emergency War Conference, June 3-6, 1943, and of Detroit Riot for leadership struggles in the Negro community.
Using both statistics and case histories, illustrates many inequalities in employment, distribution of patronage and of justice, insurance rates, public accomodations.
The Detroit Area Study of the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, finds participation of Negroes in organizations is greater than of whites of similar economic status.
This and the six precious editions, beginning in 1927, carry biographies of religious, educational, legal, financial, welfare, community, military, and other leaders. The geographical index of the seventh edition lists fifty-two Detroiters, eighteen…