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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.
Negro Housing; Report of the Committee on Negro Housing
Quotes from Negro in Detroit; summarizes and comments on Sweet case.
Survey to Determine Attitude of Residents Respecting Crime in the Tenth Police Precinct (Preliminary Report)
Analyzes causes and presents recommendations for reduction of crime.
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."