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The Michigan Civil Rights Act of 1885.
Presents history of the Act's enactment including Negro efforts to secure passage.
Negro Leadership in Grand Rapids.
Synthesizes interviews with nearly fifty Grand Rapids Negro leaders into an analysis of the black community and its leadership.
Law Enforcement in the Metropolis: a Working Paper on the Criminal Law System in Detroit.
Based on 1957 data.
The Record of 82 Negro Students in the University of Michigan, for the School Years 1912-1933.
Negro students' high school backgrounds leaned toward traditional subject matter; modern foreign language was most popular college choice, average college grades were C+ or 1.42 points.
Minority Group Employment at General Motors
Discusses "plans for progress and General Motors participation in the program." Includes statistics of minority employment.
Sprung : the Release of Willie Calloway
Detroit Free Press reporter tells how he secured a new trial for wrongfully imprisoned Calloway.
Dinner Honoring Dr. James J. McClendon, May 23, 1945
Program includes excerpts from testimonial letters, and biography of honoree.
Directory of the City of Detroit
Symbols are used to designate the nine "colored persons" listed.
History of the Woman's Missionary Society in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Comprising Its Founders, Organizations, Pathfinders, Subsequent Developments and Present Status.
Chapters on Detroit and Hamtramck cite work of Mesdames Pinkie Taylor, Dollie Gladden, Mary Shields and Emma Cheeseboro.