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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 / by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009

Table of Contents: “…"An ugly picture" : civil rights in Michigan, 1948 -- "A jewel in the crown of all of us" : Michigan enacts a Fair Employment Practices Act, 1949-1955 -- "A small beginning" : Fair Employment Practices, 1955-1963 -- "Wrestling with ... the cause of civil rights, 1949-1962 -- "The most pressing problem" in civil rights : housing discrimination, 1949-1962 -- The disadvantaged, 1949-1962 : the aged, women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped -- "The excluded" : migrant farm labor, 1949-1962 -- "The Democrats must stand up and be counted" -- Civil rights and the Michigan Constitution of 1963 -- The year of transition : 1963 -- The Civil Rights Commission and employment discrimination -- The Civil Rights Commission and discrimination in education, public accommodations, and housing -- Women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped, 1964-1968 -- "Disturbing conditions and unmet needs" : the migrant labor problem, 1964-1968 -- The Civil Rights Commission, law enforcement, and the Detroit riot of 1967 -- Since 1968.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

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The color of law Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the struggle for labor and civil rights / by Babson, Steve

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Faith in the city preaching radical social change in Detroit / by Dillard, Angela D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Hill and the making of a Black religious radical -- True versus false religion : the labor-civil rights community and the struggle to define a progressive faith, 1935-41 -- Explosive faith : the politics of religion in the arsenal of democracy -- To fulfill yesterday's promise : anticommunism and the demise of the early civil rights community -- The freedom struggle North and South : coalition politics and the foundation of a second civil rights community in Detroit -- Black faith : the Rev. …”
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Untold tales, unsung heroes an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 / by Moon, Elaine Latzman

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