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Study of Selected Dropouts - a Decade or More after Leaving School
Includes case studies of two Negro dropouts and comparison of other Negro and white dropouts, now living in Ypsilanti
The Negro Wage Earner
Excerpt for automobile plant employment, World War I and following, makes few references to Detroit and Michigan
Problems in Equal Employment Opportunity
Assesses "current status of the employment system as it affects minority group citizens of the state of Michigan."
Home Interview of Low Income Households in Detroit, Michigan.
"Identifies the charactersitics, problems and needs of a representative sample of 2,081 households living in blighted and substandard housing." Of persons studied, 70.5% were black.
Study of Services to Deal with Poverty in Detroit, Michigan.
"Appraises the present impact of existing community services on problems of the poor; call[s] attention to serious shortcomings."
Labor in American Politics
Includes much discussion of labor-Negro relationships in Detroit and Michigan politics
A Report on the Politics of Detroit
(Report on Politics in Various Cities, v.12) Part 4. Negroes. P. 25-47.
Reminiscences of Calvin Township, Cass County, Michigan
"Semi-fictional account of the Saunders Colony of freed slaves."
Privately Developed Interracial Housing, an Analysis of Experience. Special Research Report to the Commission on Race and Housing
Although not identifying the project by name, gives history of proposed Schoolcraft Gardens Housing. The cooperative, organized in 1946, was dissolved in 1950, after opposition from the FHA, the Detroit Mayor and local improvement associations.
Black Rage
Summarizes many case studies of black with unspecified residence. Since one of the co-authors practiced psychiatry in Detroit for many years, many of cases must be of Detroiters.