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Contains much detail on the Detroit branch: internal activities (1914, p.8 and 1957, p.29); national conferences held in Detroit (1921, p. 69 and 1936, p. 27); receipt of Thalheimer award (1948, p. 17); and lauding of Dr. Alf Thomas, promoter of $100…

File examined includes about half the reports, which carry brief accounts of developments in local communities

First report includes a "city-wide Negro Survey," for proposed Brewster-Douglas homes, covering average rents, family size, residents' occupations, and other social data. Second report gives like figures for other areas. Fifth report includes…

First report, 1944, was never published.

Reports cover year's activities, special studies conducted, events with racial implications

Two reports examined (1968 and 1969) stress employment activities, as LEAP Project.

Reprints eye-witness accounts by victims and spectators, contemporary newspaper stories, and a poem.

This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.

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…

Black author uses Detroit for setting of novel attacking lynching; gives footnote defense of his use of term "Afro-American."