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The Black Worker, the Negro and the Labor Movement
Gives summary figures on Negro employment in Detroit auto plants and in four crafts.
Participation of Negroes in Detroit Elections
Gives much data on housing, employment, political activities since World War I, although concetrating on subject of registration and voting, 1928-1932.
The Negro Voters in Detroit, Report to the Earhart Foundation [for Community Leadership]
Summarizes much of data used in author's thesis. Estimates at least 40% of Negro families in Detroit are from Georgia or Alabama. Gives 1893 as date of appointment of first black policeman, 1921, first black policewoman.
Human Relations at Wayne State University
Describes intercultural education programs and allied student committee and campus projects. Except from Cook, Lloyd A., ed. College Study in Intergroup Relations.
Inner-City Problems; the View from the Inside of Detroit in 1968; Report on a Survey of the Model Neighborhood, Commissioned by the Community Renewal Program of the City of Detroit
Summarizes answers to interviews of 1,448 Model Neighborhood families concerning their "most important problems."
The Accessibility of Work Places by Bus and the Employment of Inner City Workers; a Final Report to the Mayor's Committee on Human Resources Development on Phase I of the Unemployment Transportation Project
Relates employment ratios of inner city workers in nearly six hundred census tracts to available bus transportation to those areas.
Community Support for the Public Schools in a Large Metropolitan Area, Final Report
Finds "support for Detroit area schools varies with distribution of social characteristics over urban space." Report no. 2557; ERIC Document ED026706
Community Interaction and Racial Integration in the Detroit Area; an Ecological Analysis; a Specail Report Derived from Project no. 2557, U.S. Office of Education
Reports increasing racial segregation in Detroit area, increasing segregation in clubs and organizations, and consequent decreasing community cohesiveness.
Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America
Reminiscences of an ex-slave who came to Michigan in 1872 and settled near Reed City in Osceola County. A Clarke Historical Library [Central Michigan University] Facsimile Reprint.
Employment Practices of the Detroit Police Dept., by G. Nelson Smith, Community Services Assistant.
Prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (Reprinted as p. 339-343 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960, and December 15, 1960. Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961) Summarizes…