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…
This manuscript and recent Folklore Archive annual reports, show the wide range of topics covered by its collections. Among them are oral biography, proverbs, folk songs, blues, ghost tales, games, jokes, children's lore, medicine, food and voodoo…
Includes description and statistics of Detroit Visiting Nurse Association with an 11.6% Negro staff, which employed its first Negro nurse, Edith Lampkins, in 1918.