BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DETROIT HISTORY, POLITICS AND CULTURE

Thomas Klug, compiler

Marygrove College

AFRICAN AMERICANS

PUBLISHED WORKS

Aberbach, Joel D. and Jack L Walker. Race in the City: Political Trust and Public Policy in the New Urban
System. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Abrams, Charles. Forbidden Neighbors: A Study of Prejudice in Housing. New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1955. (re: Dearborn)

Bak, Richard. Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: the Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Banner, Warren N. Observations on Conditions among Negroes in the Fields of Education, Recreation,
and Employment in Selected Areas of Detroit, Michigan. Washington, D.C.: National Urban
League, 1941.

Behee, John. Hail to the Victors: Black Athletes at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: John Behee,
1973.

Beynon, Erdmann D. "The Voodoo Cult Among Negro Migrants in Detroit." American Journal of
Sociology XLIII No. 6 (1933): 894-907.

Bjorn, Lars and Jim Gallert. Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 2001.

Bjorn, Lars. “From Hastings Street to the Bluebird: The Blues and Jazz Traditions in Detroit.” Michigan
Quarterly Review 25 (Spring 1986): 257-67.

Bjorn, Lars. “Black Men in a White World: The Development of the Black Jazz Community in Detroit,
1917-1940.” Detroit in Perspectives: A Journal of Regional History 5 (Fall 1980):

Boggs, Grace Lee. Living for Change: An Autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1998.

Boggs, James. American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook. New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1963.

Boyd, Melba Joyce. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2003.

Boykin, Ulysses W. A Handbook on the Detroit Negro. Detroit: Minority Study Associates, 1943.

Boyle, Kevin. “The Kiss: Racial and Gender Conflict in a 1950s Automobile Factory.” Journal of
American History 84 (September1997): 496-523.

Boyle, Kevin. “’There Are No Union Sorrows That the Union Can’t Heal’: The Struggle for Racial
 Equality in the United Automobile Workers, 1940-1960.” Labor History 36 (Winter 1995): 5-23.

Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. "Black-Jewish Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Marsh, Loving, Wolf Surveys
and the Race Riot of 1943." Jewish Social Studies 47 (Summer/Fall 1985): 221-42.

Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of
1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Clive, Alan. State of War: Michigan in World War II. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1979.

Clotfelter, Charles T. "The Detroit Decision and ‘White Flight.’" Journal of Legal Studies 5 (January
1976): 99-112.

Cosseboom, Kathy. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Race against Race. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State
University Press, 1972.

Current, Gloster. "Paradise Valley: A Famous and Colorful Part of Detroit as Seen Through the Eyes of an
Insider." Detroit (June 1946): 32-34.

Current, Gloster. “The Detroit Elections: Problem in Reconversion.” The Crisis 52 (November 1945):
319-25.

Dancy, John C. Sand Against the Wind: The Memoirs of John C. Dancy. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1966.

Darden, Joe T., Richard C. Hill, June Thomas, Richard Thomas. Detroit, Race, and Urban Development.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Dardin, Joe T. "The Residential Segregation of Blacks in Detroit, 1960-1970." International Journal of
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Darrow, Clarence S; Arthur Weinberg, ed. Attorney for the Damned. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1957. (Darrow's closing statement in the trial of Henry Sweet, May 18, 1926, pp. 229-63)

Denby, Charles. Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal. 1952; reprint, Boston: South End Press,
1978.

Deskins, Donald R., Jr. Residential Mobility of Negroes in Detroit, 1837-1965. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan, Department of Geography, 1972

Deskins, Donald R., Jr. “Race, Residence, and Workplace in Detroit, 1880 to 1965.” Economic
Geography 48 (January 1972): 79-94.

Detroit and the Great Migration, 1916-1929. University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Libary Bulletin
No. 40. Ann Arbor: January 1993.

Detroit, Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee. The Negro in Detroit. Detroit Bureau of Governmental
Research, 1926.

Eisinger, Peter K. The Politics of Displacement: Racial and Ethnic Transition in Three American Cities.
New York: Academic Press, 1980.

Elantz, Oscar. "The Negro Vote in Northern Industrial Cities." Western Political Quarterly 13 (December
1960): 999-1010.

Ewen, Lynda Ann. Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
 Press, 1978

Farley, Reynolds, et al. “Continued Racial Residential Segregation in Detroit: ‘Chocolate City, Vanilla
Suburbs’ Revisited.” Journal of Housing Research 4 (1993): 1-38.

Farley, Reynolds. "Residential Segregation of Social and Economic Groups Among Blacks, 1970-1980."
In The Urban Underclass, ed. Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson. Washington, D.C.: The
Brookings Institution, 1991.

Farley, Reynolds, et al. “Barriers to the Racial Integration of Neighborhoods: The Detroit Case.”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 441 (January 1979): 97-113.

Feinstein, Otto, ed. Ethnic Groups in the City: Culture, Institutions, and Power. Lexington, MA: D.C.
Heath, 1971.

Fine, Sidney. “Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948-1968. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2000.

Geschwender, James A. Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black
Workers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Geschwender, James A. "The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: Problems of Confronting Black
Marxist-Leninist Organizations." Journal of Ethnic Studies 2 (Fall 1974): 1-23.

Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying. A Study in Urban Revolution. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1975.

Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin. "Niggermation in Auto: Company Policy and the Rise of the Black
Caucuses." Radical America 8 (January/February 1975): 31-56.

Glaberman, Martin. "Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit." Radical America 8
(January/February 1975): 25-29.

Gordy, Berry. To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, and the Memories of Motown. New York: Warner
Books, 1994.

Grant, William R. "Letter from Detroit: The Courts and the Schools." Urban Review 8 (Summer 1975).

Halpern, Martin. “`I’m Fighting for Freedom’: Coleman Young, HUAC, and the Detroit African
American Community.” Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (Fall 1997): 19-38.

Hartigan, John, Jr. Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1999.

Hartigan, John, Jr. "Locating White Detroit.” In Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural
Criticism, ed. Ruth Frankenberg. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997, 180-213.

Haynes, George Edmund. Negro Newcomers in Detroit, Michigan: A Challenge to Christian

Statesmanship. New York: Home Missions Council, 1918; reprint, New York: Arno Press and the
New York Times, 1969.
Herring, Mary and John Forbes. "The Overrepresentation of a White minority: Detroit's at-large city
council, 1961-1989." Social Science Quarterly 75 (June 1994): 431-45.

Hersey, John. The Algiers Motel Incident. Reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
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Hill, T. Arnold. "The Negro and the CIO." Opportunity (August 1937): 243-44.

Hine, Darlene Clark. “Black Women in the Middle West: The Michigan Experience.” In Hine Sight:
Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History. Brooklyn: Carleton Publishing,
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Hine, Darlene Clark. “Black Migration to the Urban Midwest: The Gender Dimension, 1915-1945.” In
Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History. Brooklyn: Carleton
Publishing, 1994.

Hyclak, Thomas et al. “Some New Historical Evidence of the Impact of Affirmative Action: Detroit,
1972.” Review of Black Political Economy 21 (Fall 1992): 81-98.

Jackson, Kenneth T. "Race, Ethnicity and Real Estate Appraisal: The Home Owners' Loan Corporation
and the Federal Housing Administration." Journal of Urban History 6 (1980): 419-52.

Jackson, Kenneth T. "The Spatial Dimensions of Social Control: Race, Ethnicity, and Government
Housing Policy in the United States." In Modern Industrial Cities: History, Policy, and Survival,
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Jacoby, Tamar. Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration. The Free Press,
1998. (case studies of Detroit, Atlanta, and New York City)

Katz, William Loren, ed. Haynes and Brown: The Negro in Detroit and Washington. New York: Arno,
1969.

Katzman, David M. Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana, IL: University of
Illinois Press, 1973.

Kornhauser, William. "The Negro Union Official." American Journal of Sociology 57 (March 1952): 443-
52.

Korstad, Robert and Nelson Lichtenstein. "Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early
Civil Rights Movement." Journal of American History 75 (December 1988):

Kusmer, Kenneth L. "African Americans in the City Since World War II: From the Industrial to the Post-
Industrial Era." Journal of Urban History 21 (1995): 458-504.

Leashore, Bogart R. “Black Female Workers: Live-In Domestics in Detroit, Michigan, 1860-1880.”
Phylon (June 1984): 111-20.

Lee, Alfred M. and Norman D. Humphrey. "The Interracial Committee of the City of Detroit: A Case
Study." Journal of Educational Sociology 19 (1946): 278-88.

Leggett, John C. Class, Race, and Labor: Working-Class Consciousness in Detroit. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1968.

Levine, David Allen. Internal Combustion: The Races in Detroit, 1915-1926. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1976.
Lilienthal, David E. "Has the Negro the Right of Self-Defense?" The Nation (December 23, 1925): 724-
25. (Sweet trial)

Litchfield, Edward. "A Case Study of Negro Political Behavior in Detroit." Public Opinion Quarterly 5
(June 1941): 267-74.

Meier, August and Elliott Rudwick. Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1979.

Meiklejohn, Susan Turner. Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit’s Auto
Industry. New York: Garland Publications, 2000.

Milio, Nancy. 9226 Kercheval: The Storefront that Did Not Burn. Reprint, Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 2000. (re: Mom & Tots Neighborhood Center).

Moon, Elaine Latzman. Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American
Community, 1918-1967. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Northrup, Herbert R. et al. Negro Employment in Basic Industry; A study of Racial Policies in Six
Industries, vol. 1: Studies in Negro Employment. Philadelphia: Wharton School of Finance and
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Northrup, Herbert G. The Negro in the Automobile Industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1968.

Olson, James. "Organized Black Leadership and Industrial Unionism: The Racial Response, 1936-1945."
Labor History 10 (Summer 1969): 475-86.

Peterson, Joyce. "Black Automobile Workers in Detroit, 1910-1930." Journal of Negro History 64
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Pintzuk, Edward C. Reds, Racial Justice, and Civil Liberties: Michigan Communists During the Cold War.
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The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young. Detroit: Droog Press, 1991.

Rashid, Frank D. "Robert Hayden's Detroit Blues Elegies." Callaloo 24 (2001): 200-26.

Rich, Wilbur C. Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Rich, Wilbur. Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark.
New York: Garland, 1996.

Sarasohn, Stephen B. and Carl O. Smith. "Hate Propaganda in Detroit in the 1945 Election." Public
Opinion Quarterly (1946): 24-52.

Schockley, Megan Taylor. We, Too, Are Americans: African-American Women in Detroit and Richmond,
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Singleton, Raynoma Gordy. Berry, Me and Motown: The Untold Story. Chicago:
Contemporary Books, 1990

Smith, Suzanne E. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1999.
Smock, Robert B. “The Accessibility of Work Places by Bus and the Employment of Inner-City Workers.”
Dearborn, MI: Center for Urban Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1968.

Spero, Sterling D. and Abram L. Harris. The Black Worker. 1931; reprint, New York: Atheneum, 1968

Stolberg, Mary M. Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner
George Edwards. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Sugrue, Thomas J. "Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the
Urban North, 1940-1964." The Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 551-78.

Taeuber, Karl E. and Alma F. Taeuber. Negroes in Cities: Residential Segregation and Neighborhood
Change. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1965.

Thomas, June Manning. Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Thomas, Richard. "The Detroit Urban League, 1916-1923." Michigan History 60 (Winter 1976): 315-328.

Thomas, Richard W. “The Black Urban Experience in Detroit: 1916-1967.” In Blacks and Chicanos in
Urban Michigan, eds. Homer C. Hawkins and Richard W. Thomas. Lansing: Michigan History
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Thomas, Richard W. Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945.
Indiana University Press, 1992.

Thompson, Heather Ann. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Thompson, Julius E. Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-
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Tillery, Tyrone. The Conscience of a City: A Commemorative History of the Detroit Human Rights
Commission and Department, 1943-1983. Detroit: Wayne State University Center for Urban
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Toodle, Aaron. "The Negro in Michigan Politics." The Crisis (July 1943): 213.

Washington, Forrester B. The Negro in Detroit: A Survey of the Conditions of a Negro Group in a
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Weaver, Robert C. The Negro Ghetto. 1948. (re: Detroit)

Weaver, Robert C. "Detroit and Negro Skill." Phylon 4 (1943): 131

White, Horace. "Who Owns the Negro Churches?" The Christian Century 55 (February 9, 1938): 176-77;
reply, William H. Peck, "Negro Churches in Detroit," (April 13, 1938): 468-69.

White, Walter. A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White. New York: Viking Press,
 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969. (Chap. 10, Sweet trial; Chap. 27, UAW and Ford;
Chap. 29, Detroit Riot of 1943)

Widick, B.J. Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence. 1972; reprint, Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1989.

Wilson, Carter A. "Restructuring and the Growth of Concentrated Poverty in Detroit." Urban Affairs
Quarterly 28 (December 1992): 187-206.

Wolcott, Victoria W. Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit. Chapel

Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Wolcott, Victoria W. “Mediums, Messages, and Lucky Numbers: African-American Female Spiritualists
and Numbers Runners in Interwar Detroit.” In The Geography of Identity, ed. Patricia Yaeger,
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Wolf, Eleanor. Trial and Error: The Detroit School Segregation Case. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1981.

Wolfram, Walter. A Sociolinguistic Study of Detroit Negro Speech. Washington, D.C.: Center for
Applied Linguistics, 1969.

Young, Coleman and Lonnie Wheeler. Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young. New York:
Viking, 1994.

Zax, Jeffrey S. and John F. Kain. “Moving to the Suburbs: Do Relocating Companies Leave Their Black
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Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in
Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Allen, Derek B. "From the Ghetto to the Joint: A Study of Black Urban Survival Crime in Detroit." Ph.D.
diss., Michigan State University, 1989

Anderson, Clarence. "Metropolitan Detroit FEPC: A History of the Organization and Operation of a
Citizens' Action Group to Encourage Equality of Opportunity in Employment Practice without
Regard to Race, Creed, Color or National Origin." M.A. thesis, Wayne University, 1947.

Anderson, Marc Belding. "Racial Discrimination in Detroit: A Spatial Analysis of Racism." M.A. thesis,
Wayne University, 1939.

Ashton, Patrick James. "Race, Class, and Black Politics: The Implications of the Election of a Black
Mayor for the Police and Policing of Detroit." Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1981.

Bailer, Lloyd M. "Negro Labor in the Automobile Industry." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1942.

Barker, John M. "The 1945 Detroit Mayoralty Election between Mayor Edward J. Jeffries and Richard T.
Frankensteen." M.A. essay, Wayne State University, 1966.

Black, Harold. "Restrictive Covenants in Relation to Segregated Negro Housing in Detroit." M.A. thesis,
Wayne University, 1947.

Brown, Tony Nicholas. “The Mental Health Consequences of Racial Stratification Among African
 Americans and White Americans in Detroit, Michigan.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan,
1998.

Carlson, Glen E. "The Negro in the Industries of Detroit." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1929.

Cassanova, Thomas Cornelius. "Black Workers at the Point of Production: Shopfloor Radicalism and
Wildcat Strikes in Detroit Auto, 1955-1976." Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1993.

Craig, Scott Ian. "Automobiles and Labor: The Transformation of Detroit's Black Working Class, 1917-
1941." M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 1986.

Croisier, Anne Christine. “Detroit and Philadelphia: a Comparison of Black Suburbanization in Two
Metropolitan Areas.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan 1993.

Curlew, Douglas James. “They Ceased Not to Preach: Fundamentalism, Culture, and the Revivalist
Imperative at the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2001.

Current, Gloster Bryant. "Negro Participation in the August 7, 1945 Primary in Detroit." M.A. thesis,
Wayne University, 1949.

Davis, Nancy Marie. “Integration, the ‘New Negro,” and Community Building: Black Catholic Life in
Four Catholic Churches in Detroit, 1911 to 1945.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1996.

Davis, Natalie Motise. "Blacks in Miami and Detroit: Communities in Contrast." Ph.D. diss., University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976.

Deskins, Donald Richard, Jr. "Residential Mobility of Negro Occupational Groups in Detroit, 1837-1965."
Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan 1971.

Dillard, Angela Denise. "From the Reverend Charles A. Hill to the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr.: Change
and Continuity in the Patterns of Civil Rights Mobilization in Detroit, 1935-1967." Ph.D. diss.,
University of Michigan, 1995.

Downey, Liam Christopher Francis. “Environmental Inequality: Race, Income, and Industrial Pollution in
Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 2000.

Edwards, Jeffrey Brian. "The Resolution of an `Urban Crisis': Racial Formation in Detroit, 1961-1981."
Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1992.

Elliott, Hydrian. “Evangelism, Black Churches Working with `At-Risk’ Youth: An Intervention Strategy.”
D. Min. thesis, Drew University, 1998.

Fentin, D. Thomas. "The Detroit Council for Human Rights and the Detroit Freedom March of 1963."
M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 1999.

Friedland, William H. "Attitude Change toward Negroes by White Shop-level Leaders of the United
Automobile Workers Union." M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 1956.

Freund, David M.P. “Making It Home: Race, Development, and the Politics of Place in Suburban Detroit,
1940-1967.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1999.

Fujita, Kuniko. "Black Workers' Struggles in Detroit's Auto Industry, 1935-1975." M.A. thesis, Michigan
State University, 1977.
Fulton, Robert Lester. "Russel Woods: A Study of a Neighborhood's Initial Response to Negro Invasion."
Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1959.

Hart, Jamie. “African Americans, Health Care, and the Reproductive Freedom Movement in Detroit,1918-
1945.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1998.

Haywood, Twila Cele. "Detroit Desegregation, 1969-1974." M.A. essay, Wayne State University,

Iwamoto, Kumiko. “The Epidemiology of Lung Cancer in Metropolitan Detroit: Racial Differences in
Men.” Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994.

Jenkins, Bette Smith. "The Racial Policies of the Detroit Housing Commission and Their Administration."
M.A. thesis, Wayne University, 1950. (or 1951)

Jones, Lester Lee. "Spatial and Temporal Interrelationships of Land Use, Race, and Property Values:
Detroit, Michigan, A Case Study." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1976.

Kalinski, Peter. “Through the Vestibule: Assimilation and the Great Migration to Detroit, 1915-1925.”
M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 2000.

Katzman, David M. "Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century." Ph.D. diss., University
of Michigan, 1970.

Kirshner, George. "Government Agencies in Detroit in the Work of Overcoming Discrimination against
the Negro in Private Employment." M.A. thesis, Wayne University, 1945.

Kulka, Helen A. "The Barometer of the Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee: An Attempt to Measure
Racial Tension." M.A. thesis, Wayne University, 1945.

Ledesma, Irene J. "The Committee on Race Relations of the Michigan Council of Churches: A Historical
Study, January 1943-February 1946." M.A. thesis, University of Michigan, 1946.

Levine, David Allan. "Expecting the Barbarians: Social Control and Race Relations, Detroit, 1915-1925."
Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1970.

Lewis, David. "History of Negro Employment in Detroit Area Plants of the Ford Motor Company, 1914-
1940." Unpublished paper, University of Michigan, 1954; copy at Reuther Library, Wayne State
University, Detroit.

Lewis, Denise. "Black Political Consciousness and the Voting Behavior of Blacks in Detroit, 1961-1968."
M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 1969.

Lindsay, Howard O’Dell. “Field to Fords, Feds of Franchise: African American Empowerment in Inkster,
Michigan.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1993.

Miles, Norman Kenneth. "Home at Last: Urbanization of Black Migrants in Detroit, 1916-1929." Ph.D.
diss., University of Michigan, 1978.

Mitchem, Stephanie Y. “Getting Off the Cross: African-American Women, Health, and Salvation.” Ph.D.
diss., Northwestern University, 1998. (re: Detroit Black Women’s Health Project)

Mongo, Adolph. “Detroit Police Department STRESS Unit: Catalyst for Change in Detroit, 1971-1974.”
M.A. thesis, Wayne State University, 1999.

Moore, Gilbert W. "Poverty, Class Consciousness, and Race Conflict in the UAW-CIO, 1937-1955."
 Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1978.

Morrison, Joyce Pollard. "An Analysis of Race Labeling in the Local Crime Reports of the Three Detroit
Daily Newspapers." M.A. thesis, Wayne University, 1951.

Myers, George. “A Case Study of African-American Health: The Role of Urban and Health Planning in
Detroit, Michigan (1940-1970).” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1999.

Phillips, Robert Hansbury. "Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Mayoral Initiative and
Bureaucratic Responses: the Case of Detroit." Ph.D. diss, Wayne State University, 1987.

Pratt, Menah Adeola Eyaside. “Where Are the Black Girls? The Marginalization of Black Females in the
Single-Sex School Debate in Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1997.

Reid, John B. “Race, Class, Gender and the Teaching Profession: African-American School Teachers of
the Urban Midwest, 1865-1950.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1996. (Detroit,
Chicago, Cleveland)

Riddle, Richard David. "The Rise of the `Reagan Democrats' in Warren, Michigan: 1964-1984." Ph.D.
diss., Wayne State University, 1998.

Shaw, Todd Cameron. “`…Responsibility for Their Deeds’: Political Accountability and Black, Low-
Income Housing Advocacy in Detroit, 1933-1993.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1996.”

Sugrue, Thomas Joseph. "The Origins of Urban Crisis: Race, Industrial Decline, and Housing in Detroit,
1940-1960." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1992.

Shanahan, James Lester. "Spatial Isolation and Job Opportunities for Low Skill Residents in the Core of
the Detroit SMSA." Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1972.

Smith, Suzanne Eileen. “`Dancing in the Street’: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, 1963-1973.”
Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1996.

Solomon, Thomas R. "Participation of Negroes in Detroit Elections." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan,
1939.

Stevenson, Marshall F., Jr. "Points of Departure, Acts of Resolve: Black-Jewish Relations in Detroit, 1937-
1962." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1988.

Stovall, A.J. “Before Coleman Young: The Growth of the Detroit Black Elected Officialdom, 1970-1973.”
Ph.D. diss., Union College, 1983.

Taylor Shockley, Megan Newbury. “‘We, Too, Are Americans’: African-American Women, Citizenship,
and Civil Rights Activism in Detroit and Richmond,1940-1954.” Ph.D. diss., University of
Arizona, 2000.

Thomas, Richard. "From Peasant to Proletarian: The Formation and Organization of the Black Industrial
Working Class in Detroit, 1915-1945." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1976.

Thompson, Heather Ann. “The Politics of Labor, Race, and Liberalism in the Auto Plants and the Motor
City, 1940-1980.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1995.

Van Olphen, Juliana Elizabeth. “Religious Involvement and Health Among African-American Women on
the East Side of Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2000.
White, Clark Eldridge. “‘The Lost Generation’: Black Youth Unemployment in Detroit and the Formation
of a Segment of the Modern ‘Reserve Army of Labor,’ 1967-1980.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State
University, 1997.

Wietchy, Thomas. "Detroit Public School Administration on the Issue of Desegregation." M.A. essay,
Wayne State University.

Williams, Lois Lorraine. "Analysis of Social and Community Needs of Black Senior Citizens in Inner-City
Detroit." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1977.

Wolcott, Victoria Widgeon. “Remaking Respectability: African-American Women and the Politics of
Identity in Interwar Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1995.

Woodson, June Baber. "A Century with the Negroes of Detroit: 1830-1930." M.A. thesis, Wayne
University, 1949.

Wright, Robert Crunn. "Urban Political Geography: A Black Perspective of Black Political Behavior in the
1961, 1965, 1969 Mayoral Elections of Detroit, Michigan." Ph.D. diss., Clark University, 1972.