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Letter to United Auto Workers Local Union Officers in Regions 1 and 1A Regarding Detroit Negro Labor Council
Mimeographed letter characterizes Council as comprised of "Communist dominated unions" and criticizes its initiative petition drive for a Detroit Fair Employment Practices Ordinance
Letter Urging Action to Save Accused Negro Worker, Willie McGee
Letter, signed by Colson Nutt, Executive Secretary, commends action of UAW Locals 3, 22, 51, 190, 227, 269, 742
Letter, 1968, May 14, Detroit, Mich., to Common Council
Outlines "the reaction in Detroit following the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis on April 4." Includes chronology of events April 4-15, 1968
Library Survey
Compares services available at inner city and outlying branches of library system and makes recommendations.
Life of William Dummer Powell
The Tragedy of the La Force Family. Episode concerning capture of North Carolina loyalist whites and 13 slaves and their transportation to and transfer in Detroit as prisoners during the Revolutionary War, is reconstructed from accounts in family…
Living Patterns and Attitudes in the Detroit Region; a Report by John B. Lansing and Gary Hendricks
Finds Negro participation in outdoor recreation much less than white
Local History Scrapbooks: Negroes.
Miscellaneous materials, chiefly clipping from Wyandotte News Herald, and some typed sheets with source marked "Hearsay" cover events in down-river communities from about 1910 to 1955.
