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A Study of Some Aspects of Upward Mobility in a Poor Neighborhood
Examines those attitudes, values, life styles which would affect upward mobility of residents of a low rent area in Detroit.
Fight for Freedom: the Story of the NAACP.
Tells of Sweet case and the 1943 Riots; refers to Detroit as "the top fund raising branch of the NAACP."
An Exploration of Inter-Racial Education in the Kindergarten
Investigates methods employed for improving interracial education in a kindergarten located in a changing neighborhood of Detroit.
General Development Plan: Village of Inkster, Michigan
Includes physical and social data.
Patterns of Discrimination Study, Interim Report, May 1, 1966, for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
pg. 17-20: Michigan.
Study of Patterns of Discrimination in Employment for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930.
p. 127-143. Detroit: the Write-in Challenge. Describes Klan influx and influence in Detroit after World War I; summarizes Sweet Case, and preceding attempted move-ins by Dr. Alex Turner and James Fletcher.
A Study of the Common Characteristics of Unmarried Mothers Receiving Aid to Dependent Children: a Study of Seventy-Five Active Cases Carried by the Wayne County Bureau of Social Aid of Detroit as of June 1946
Studies "social histories of group of unmarried mothers [87% black] as to their common characteristics, their differences, the problems presented by them other than financial, and the services rendered by agency to the mother and child."
The Relationship between Two Aspects of Socio-Economic Disadvantage and the School Success of 8th Grade Negro Students in a Detroit Junior High School.
Recommends educational changes to offset effects of father-absence and public welfare support.