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Judicial Elections in Detriot: Candidates, Interest Groups, Voting Patterns.
Analyzes Detroit's 1966 election in which there were five black Recorders Court candidates.
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,…
Kids and Cops; a Study in Mutual Hostility
Reports "findings of an extensive study of how young people feel about the police and how police feel about young people, particularly youth in the inner cities" of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Muskegon Heights.
Kinship in an Urban Community
Study of 729 married women, mostly migrants in Detroit area, finds much greater kinship activity among non-whites than whites
Labor and Automobiles
The Negro Worker. Traces Negro's employment experience in the auto plants.
Labor in American Politics
Includes much discussion of labor-Negro relationships in Detroit and Michigan politics
Labor's Giant Step, 20 Years of the CIO
Contains occasional reference to Negroes' role in the development of CIO and its affiliates, particularly the UAW.
Landmarks of Detroit, a History of the City
Summarizes Faulkner and Blackburn Riots; describes Underground Railroad.
Lansing Busing Meets Roadblock.
Tells why Lansing Board of Education decided to undertake busing to achieve racial balance in high schools.
Law Enforcement 1965, the Police and Race Relations
Uses Detroit examples in describing problems of urban law enforcement.