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Aged and Alone in Detroit, a Service-Study of the Health and Welfare Needs of Aged Persons Who Live Alone in the Central Part of Detroit.
Study covers persons living in a public housing project, in low-cost downtown hotels and rooming houses, and in their own homes. Groups were about equally divided, black and white.
Negroes in Kalamazoo, a Local Self-Survey
Survey directed by Fisk University shows restricted employment opportunities, particularly in paper and chemical manufactures and growing segregation in housing, education, use of public agencies.
Negro Handbook, ed. by Florence Murrary
Contains statistics and tables (as church membership, crime, demographic data, hospitals, employment data, newspapers and periodicals currently published) by state, and often by city.
Negro Employment - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Lists persons in "professions, white-collar, semi-skilled."
A Negro Emigration Convention, 1854. p. 363-366 of A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Gives text of the platform of a convention meeting in Cleveland, August 24-26, 1854, favoring voluntary emigration and colonization. President of the 102-member convention was William C. Monroe of Michigan.
[Program of] Founding Convention, May 27-29, 1960, Statler-Hilton Hotel, Detroit, 1960
Program shows that Detroit Negro leaders were prominent in the formation of the Council
The Negro Population of Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1940; A Social Study Conducted for the Interracial Committee of the Council of Social Agencies
Analyzes "ecomomic setting, employment, relief and emergency work, housing, health, hosptials, insurance, crime and juvenille delinquency, education, Negro business and professional pursuits, churches and social agencies," by means of interviews with…