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America's Largest Privately Owned Hospital (Negro).
Describes Bethesda and Edyth K. Thomas Memorial Hospitals comprising Thomas Hospital Center.
America's Largest Negro Super Mart; Detroit Grocer Got Start during Depression Selling Chitterlings from Door to Door.
Allen Super Market in Inkster.
American Tragedy, 1967-Detroit.
Appears also as pg. 126-137 of Bosken, Joseph, Urban racial Violence in the Twentieth Century. Beverly Hills, Calif., Glencoe Press, 1969.
Along the Color Line: the Eighth Commandment.
Detroit Civic Rights Committee issues thirteen commandments to Detroit Negroes.
Along the Color Line: Detroit's New "Y".
A one-paragraph article notes the opening of the new Lucy Thurman Branch of the YWCA.
Class Bias in Education.
Summarizes Pat Sexton's Education and Income, a Study of the Detroit school system.
Jim Crow Walls Crumbling in City.
Michigan Edition, December 11, 1949
The Detroit Rioters and Looters Committed to Prison.
The sociologist and the psychologist at Jackson Prison report on studies of ninety-seven Negroes, eight whites committed after the 1943 Riot. Reprinted as pg. 298-304 of Grimshaw, Allen D. Racial Violence in the United States. Chicago, Aldine, 1969.
The Social and Political Reactions of Older Negroes to Unemployment.
Compares "labor market experiences and consequent social-political adjustment of Negroes and whites, unemployed as result of Packard Motor Car Company close-down of June 1956."
The Underground Railroad.
Typical journey on the Underground Railroad is described.