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A Study of Ten Inter-Cultural Areas in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Made under the Supervision of the Community Organization Committee.
Reports information secured through interviews on employment and housing conditions in parts of city having largest Negro populations. Finds conditions vastly improved over 1940, but much yet to be achieved.
Voting Behavior: a Case Study
Nationality and Race. Analyzes voting statistics in Ann Arbor from 1924 to 1932 by sex, age, race.
A Pilot Study of Negro In-Migrants Who Have Lived in Detroit within the Last Ten Years: Their Health Needs, Use and Knowledge of Health Resources.
This second of three studies (Howcott-Ponder-Wassenaar) of residents of Hastings-Dequindre-Canfield-Watkins area concentrates on health needs.
Negro Attitudes towards Pictures for Junior High School Social Studies Textbooks.
Finds sex, occupation, and community participation make significant differences in reactions to conservative versus militant leaders by parent-teacher organizations of elementary and junior high schools in metropolitan Detroit.
Marching Blacks, an Interpretive History of the Rise of the Black Common Man
Cites work of Snow Grigsby and the Detroit Civic Rights Committee (p. 108-109); gives personalized view of 1943 Race Riot (p. 166-168)
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.
Factors Influencing and Restraining the Housing Mobility of Negroes in Metropolitan Detroit
Presents information on restrictive attitudes and practices of financial institutions and of realtors.
Survey to Determine Attitude of Residents Respecting Crime in the Tenth Police Precinct (Preliminary Report)
Analyzes causes and presents recommendations for reduction of crime.
