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Looting in Civil Disorders, an Index of Social Change
Describes looting in Detroit 1967 and in other riots.
Negro Leadership and Labor Unions
Attributes Detroit's racial peace in part to excellent Negro leadership, much of it union-based.
The Racial Problem in Detroit: the Present Situation
Lists debits and credits in the Detroit racial picture
The Sociology of the Block Club
"Written shortly after [the author] had concluded six years' work organizing and serving block clubs"
Keeping Negroes "in Their Place" in Detroit
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,…
Negroes and Medicine
Gives 1955/57 data on black use of Wayne State and Michigan University medical training facilities; includes Detroit amoung fourteen communities studied as to "medical care by and for Negroes."
Membership Areas of a Community Organization Based on the Concentration and Distribution of Non-White Population in Detroit
Plan, prepared at request of NAACP, recommends districts for subdivision of Detroit Branch.
Statement to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee in Support of an Effective Fderal FEPC, S. 692, Presented for the CIO and UAW
Includes examples and statistics on discrimination from Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission files; narrates UAW efforts to achieve equality.
"To Foster Fair Employment in Our Own Industries and to Act Vigorously in the Public Arena"
Summarizes UAW activities aimed at equal opportunity.
An excerpt from Equal Opportunity Is Good Labor Practice
An excerpt from Equal Opportunity Is Good Labor Practice
Programme Celebrating the Opening of the New Hartford Avuenue Baptist Church, Corner Hartford and Milford Avenues. Beginning Sunday, January 13, 1924
Contains pictures of old and new church, of church trustees, and deacons; carries advertisements