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Using questionnaires and interviews, compiles such data as types of work, conditions of labor, hours, methods of pay, discriminatory practices toward Negro workers, relationship with unions.

Gives history and description of the practices in Detroit's Negro community.

Using "census documents, city directories, newspapers, general histories of Detroit and Michigan and of the Negro" describes Negro community in Detroit up to about 1910.

pg. 414-416. Epilogue: Rabbits in a Strange World. Recounts circumstances leading to Haywood Patterson's imprisonment at Jackson and death in Michigan in 1952.

Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.

Author, on grant from Fund for Adult Education, visits community leaders in several cities; in Detroit meets Mary Ann Davis, Beulah Whitby, Iris Cox, Prophet (Dr. James F.) Jones, Ulysses Boykin, Cora Brown, Glady Johnson, the Thomas family, John…

Covers period 1899 to date.

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

Volume 5: Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and West of Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica. pg. 80-88: Michigan. Quotes descriptions of cases from court reports.

Contains Mayor's account of Riots; chronology of events from 3:30 a.m., July 23, 1967 to 8:55 a.m., August 15; statistical data on arrestees; summary of federal programs; demographic statistics; description of New Detroit Committee; and…