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Letter, 1968, May 14, Detroit, Mich., to Common Council
Outlines "the reaction in Detroit following the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis on April 4." Includes chronology of events April 4-15, 1968
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh Reports to the People, Detroit, 1967
Reports on the state of the city during the aftermath of the Riot, and the impending teacher and automobile industry strikes
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh Reports to the People. Detroit, 1968.
Urges Detroit area citizens to achieve "a return of sanity to this city and its surrounding community."
Testimony at the Hearing before the Business and Commerce Sub-Committee. Washington, D.C.
Describes "problems of rebuilding a city after a riot when assistance from federal and state governments is minimal."
Black Workers and the New Unions
Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.
The Negro and Tuberculosis, pg. 227-235 of National Conference of Social Work. Proceedings, 1933.
Compares Negro and white tuberculosis incidence and death rates in Detroit.
Hooded Americanism: the First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965
pg. 194-197. White Robes on Woodward Avenue. Describes Klan influences in mid-1920s, particularly in containing Negro housing by stimulating organization of neighborhood improvement associations.
America's Tenth Man; a Pictorial Review of One-Tenth of a Nation, Presenting the Negro Contribution to American Life Today
Contains very slight references to or pictures of Michigan personalities.
"Today's American Negros and Their Contributions to Their Country," Presented by the Mott Adult Education Programs's Lecture--Discussion Department [of the] Flint Board of Education in Association with the Urban League of Flint and Ebony Magazine [Flint]
One-page biographies of living Negroes, important in Flint or nationally.