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Excerpts from briefs presented by Urgan League representatives from Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, give data on housing, and impact of urban renewal

In Detroit. Describes Sojourner Truth Riot

Not examined; file copy available for use at National Urban League Offices in New York

[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.

Tabulates employees by company and by type of job as of May 1950. P. 20 Detroit, MI.

One brief paragraph on Detroit states that the 4,500 Negro families receiving doles are 27% of the total families on relief.

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…

Program shows that Detroit Negro leaders were prominent in the formation of the Council