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A Negro Emigration Convention, 1854. p. 363-366 of A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Gives text of the platform of a convention meeting in Cleveland, August 24-26, 1854, favoring voluntary emigration and colonization. President of the 102-member convention was William C. Monroe of Michigan.
Negro Employment - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Lists persons in "professions, white-collar, semi-skilled."
Negro Handbook, ed. by Florence Murrary
Contains statistics and tables (as church membership, crime, demographic data, hospitals, employment data, newspapers and periodicals currently published) by state, and often by city.
Negroes in Kalamazoo, a Local Self-Survey
Survey directed by Fisk University shows restricted employment opportunities, particularly in paper and chemical manufactures and growing segregation in housing, education, use of public agencies.
Aged and Alone in Detroit, a Service-Study of the Health and Welfare Needs of Aged Persons Who Live Alone in the Central Part of Detroit.
Study covers persons living in a public housing project, in low-cost downtown hotels and rooming houses, and in their own homes. Groups were about equally divided, black and white.
Youth Service Corps of the Detroit Police Department: a Report and Recommendations on the Summer 1966 Project for Youth in the City [Detroit]
Describes program giving summer employment to 630 boys, aged fourteen and fifteen, living in seven inner city precincts.
Negroes Deal with a Betrayer
Reprints story from Liberator, September 11, 1958, of punishment dealt a Negro who helped white Southerners recapture two escaped slaves, living in Detroit.
Twenty-Five Years of Negro Activity in Detroit
Summarizes economic, social, cultural life of Detroit Negro from 1910-1934