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Discrimination; Based on the Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
"Resume of the recent five-volume report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights" includes summaries of three city survery (New York, Detroit, Dallas, Fort Worth) on the federal government as employer, made in 1960; of Committee on Government…
Dissecting a Riot Neighborhood, an Analysis of Detroit's 12th Street, the Scene of 1967's Bloody Upheaval.
Tries to explain why the Riot began in this area.
Distribution of Negro Physicians in Urban Communities with Less than 50,000 Negroes in 1942
Only Michigan area included is Flint.
Does Your Representative and Senator Know Your Viewpoint?
Leaflet lists council membership and urges FEPC legislation.
Drawing the "Color Line" in Detroit: Business Houses Don't Want Afro-American Clerks
Quotes black leaders on aspects of discrimination.
Economic Crisis and Expectations of Violence: a Study of Unemployed Negroes,
Reports results of interviews in two predominantly black Detroit communities with high unemployment, one east side, one west side, as to expectations of violence if recession continues.
Editorial Notes
Paragraph description of admission of Afro-American, Gabriel Franklin Hargo, of Adrian, to lectures in University of Michigan's Law Department.
Education and Income: Inequalities of Opportunity in Our Public Schools
With "evidence obtained from the study of a single large, Norther urban public-school system" [Detroit] demonstrates "that our public-school system has become an instrument of social and economic class distinctions in American society."
Edwards Clears Policeman in Killing but Asks New Rule
Gives police account of shooting of Cynthia Scott on July 5, 1963.