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Debates show dissatisfaction with Michigan State Equal Rights League.

Defends nineteen members (eighteen black, one white) of the Leland unit of Amalgamated Local 205, UAW, against charges, filed by the International Executive Board, of leading a movement for decertification of the union as bargaining agent at the…

Lists members of "initiating nucleus" of the Committee: State Senator Joseph Brown, Mrs. Jeanetta Welch Brown, Ulysses Boykin, Hodges Mason, Joe Louis, Charles Boxborough, Mrs. Sara Hill Stuart, and signer of invitation, Arthur M. Bowman.

Committee, of which Dr. Remus Robinson is a member, recommends more foster care for Negro children, using more Negroes in health services, interracial councils in all areas with Negro population, and more attention to minority problems in social…

One untitled chapter (pg. 117-125) describes Detroit opposition to slavery, Blackburn episode, Underground Railroad, and Faulkner Riot.

Mentions W. Richard Carter, President, Local 49, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; and Walter Hardin, UAW.

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

Autobiography of a native-born Michigan minister and journalist.