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Membership Areas of a Community Organization Based on the Concentration and Distribution of Non-White Population in Detroit
Plan, prepared at request of NAACP, recommends districts for subdivision of Detroit Branch.
Negroes and Medicine
Gives 1955/57 data on black use of Wayne State and Michigan University medical training facilities; includes Detroit amoung fourteen communities studied as to "medical care by and for Negroes."
Keeping Negroes "in Their Place" in Detroit
An excerpt from Westin, Alan F., ed. Freedom Now! The Civil Rights Struggle in America
Originally printed as p. 369-372 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960, and December 15, 1960. Washington,…
The Sociology of the Block Club
"Written shortly after [the author] had concluded six years' work organizing and serving block clubs"
The Racial Problem in Detroit: the Present Situation
Lists debits and credits in the Detroit racial picture
Negro Leadership and Labor Unions
Attributes Detroit's racial peace in part to excellent Negro leadership, much of it union-based.
Looting in Civil Disorders, an Index of Social Change
Describes looting in Detroit 1967 and in other riots.
Survey to Determine Attitude of Residents Respecting Crime in the Tenth Police Precinct (Preliminary Report)
Analyzes causes and presents recommendations for reduction of crime.
Factors Influencing and Restraining the Housing Mobility of Negroes in Metropolitan Detroit
Presents information on restrictive attitudes and practices of financial institutions and of realtors.