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Three page account of the 1941 Ford Strike by UAW Director of Negro Organizational Activities.

Discusses "functions, efforts, and effect of Negro organizations, individual leaders and the Negro press in the selective process of determining candidates for support."

Includes a short synopsis of Negro influence in Detroit political life.

Gives statistics on population characteristics, as number, nativity, migration, sex, age, urbanization, marital status, fertility, school attendance, literacy, home ownership, occupation, with state, county and city breakdowns

Describes relations between blacks and whites as observed by Southern reporter, one of whose Detroit guides was Ray Hatcher.

Presents data from interviews and questionnaires conducted in the 1940's, of District Superintendent and black and white ministers. Many descriptions of actual church practices are geographically identified.

Traces historical development and present locations of Negroes in Ann Arbor

Of the Bulletins available in Michigan libraries, four contain information on Detroit: no. 1. Negro Newspapers and Periodicals in the U.S. (1938, 1939, 1943 editions) no. 2. Convention Dates of Negro Organizations (1939, 1940, 1944, 1946 editions)…

Reply to earlier letter points out inaccuracies in that writer's defense of University of Michigan practices.