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Special Report on Negroes in Detroit's Labor Market

In 1948 and 1950 elections "proportions of Negroes who voted and who were registered to vote exceeded that of the total" electorate. Project no. 802

Urges caution in use of data since size of Negro sample is small (79). Project 802.

Finds in families with roughly similar outcomes, "Negro wives are generally more involved in the economic decision of their families than are white wives."
Project 1261

Lists the many publications some of which include analyses by race, resulting from the social science-oriented research.

A Report of Nationwide Surveys of Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, and Attitudes of the Unemployed.

Special survey of Greater Detroit, February, 1958, finds much higher proportion of Negroes than whites unemployed.

Some questions asked both children and their parents in this three-year study concerned "Effects of Child's Being Colored at School."

Summarizes interviews made in 1958, of forty-six Negro, three times as many white families living in integrated sections of Kalamazoo.

v.1 Underground Railroad in Michigan.

V.2 Population Elements: [the Negro]

Describes activities of two centers at Mt. Pleasant and Lansing in training "hard core unemployed."