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Negro Membership in American Labor Unions
[Negroes and Organized Labor in Selected Cities]: Detroit Michigan. Shows Great Lakes Stewards, and organizations of women laundry workers, brick layers, and plasterers and cement mixers to be only union locals having black memberships.
Unemployment among Negroes: Activities of the National Urban League, Data on 25 Industrial Centers
One brief paragraph on Detroit states that the 4,500 Negro families receiving doles are 27% of the total families on relief.
A Study of the Employment Opportunities for Negroes in Breweries of the United States
Tabulates employees by company and by type of job as of May 1950. P. 20 Detroit, MI.
Survey of the Negro Population of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Not examined; file copy available for use at National Urban League Offices in New York
Racial Problems in Housing
In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot
Proceedings, Third Urban Renewal Institute, Detroit, MI, November 29-30, 1956
Excerpts from briefs presented by Urgan League representatives from Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, give data on housing, and impact of urban renewal
The Forgotten Tenth; an Analysis of Unemployment among Negroes in the United States and its Social Costs: 1932-1933. [The Color Line Series no.1]
Uses occasional figures from and descriptions of programs of alleviation in Detroit
Annual Report, 1915/16-date
File examined includes about half the reports, which carry brief accounts of developments in local communities
Planning for Institutional Care of Children in Metropolitan Detroit, Report of an Analysis of the Programs of 19 Voluntary Instituitons and the Children they Serve, and Comments on the Community System of Child Welfare Services
Recommends providing needed services to more Negro children