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Contains occasional reference to Negroes' role in the development of CIO and its affiliates, particularly the UAW.

Includes much discussion of labor-Negro relationships in Detroit and Michigan politics

The Negro Worker. Traces Negro's employment experience in the auto plants.

Study of 729 married women, mostly migrants in Detroit area, finds much greater kinship activity among non-whites than whites

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.

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,…

Analyzes Detroit's 1966 election in which there were five black Recorders Court candidates.

Volume 5: Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and West of Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica. pg. 80-88: Michigan. Quotes descriptions of cases from court reports.

Sojourner Truth moved to Battle Creek in 1856 and died there in 1883.

Presents a highly critical report of Detroit's anti-poverty program