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• Detroit and the great migration, 1916-1929 (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1993), by Elizabeth Anne Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (reprint; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (Detroit: The author, 1863) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Guide to the microfilm edition of the Detroit Urban League papers. (Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, 1974), by Bentley Historical Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black personalities of Detroit. (Region Six, Detroit Public Schools, 1976), by Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Public Schools. Region Six (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Angela D. Dillard (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case, by Harry Haywood (PDF page images at MSU)
• Why Race Riots? Lessons From Detroit (New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1944), by Earl Louis Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Be it Ever So Tumbled: The Story of a Suburban Slum (Detroit: Citizen's Housing and Planning Council of Detroit, 1940), by Marvel Daines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of the negro church in the Negro community of Detroit. ([Ann Arbor], 1935), by Henry Allen Bullock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The urbanization of the Negro church in Detroit; second semester report to the Earhart Foundation for Community Leadership per Dr. R. D. McKenzie. ([Ann Arbor], 1935), by Henry Allen Bullock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand book on the Detroit Negro (The Minority study associates, 1943), by Ulysses W. Boykin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro in Detroit : a survey of the conditions of a Negro group in a northern industrial center during the war prosperity period (1920), by Forrester B. Washington and Associated Charities of Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• An x-ray picture of Detroit (S. F. Grigsby, 1933), by Snow F. Grigsby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights : hearings held in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960 and December 15, 1960. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• White hypocrisy and black lethargy ([s.n.], 1937), by Snow F. Grigsby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A thrilling narrative from the lips of the sufferers of the late Detroit riot, March 6, 1863 : with the hair breadth escapes of men, women and children, and destruction of colored men's property, not less than $15,000. (The author, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some notes on the Detroit Negro vote. ([publisher not identified], 1955) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir program of the second annual national Sunday school convention of the Churches of God in Christ, Inc., convening June 18-23, 1952 at the State Temple,...Detroit, Michigan. ([Printed by D.J. Young Printing Co.], 1952), by Church of God in Christ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir and official program...thirty-second annual session, Detroit, Michigan, 1927. ([Detroit], 1927), by National Medical Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• What caused the Detroit riot? : an analysis (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1943), by Walter Francis White, Thurgood Marshall, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro new-comers in Detroit, Michigan : a challenge to Christian statesmanship, a preliminary study (Home Missions Council, 1918), by George Edmund Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, Detroit, Michigan : embodying findings and recommendations based upon a survey of race conditions in the city, undertaken in 1926. (The Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, Inc., 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Profile of critical social welfare and economic problems facing Negro people in the Detroit community. (The League, 1959), by Detroit Urban League. Community Services Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appointed: An American Novel ("Sanda" was a joint pseudonym of Anderson and Stowers; Detroit: Detroit Law Printing Co., 1894), by active 1894 Sanda, contrib. by William H. Anderson and Walter H. Stowers
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• The Detroit Tribune (partial serial archives)

• Souvenir program, silver anniversary, St. Stephen A.M.E. Church, 6000 Stanford Avenue, Detroit, Michigan : program of the Michigan Annual Conference, fifty-seventh session. (St. Stepehn A.M.E. Church?, 1943), by African Methodist Episcopal Church. Michigan Conference and Mich.) St. Stephen A.M.E. Church (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racial Conflict a Home Front Danger: Lessons of the Detroit Riot (1943), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profile of critical social welfare and economic problems facing Negro people in the Detroit community. (The League, 1959), by Detroit Urban League. Community Services Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thrilling narrative from the lips of the sufferers of the late Detroit riot, March 6, 1863, : with the hair breadth escapes of men, women and children, and destruction of colored men's property, not less than $15,000. (Published by the author, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Angela D. Dillard (page images at HathiTrust)

• A thrilling narrative from the lips of the sufferers of the late Detroit riot, March 6, 1863, : with the hair breadth escapes of men, women and children, and destruction of colored men's property, not less than $15,000. (Published by the author, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A brief history of 75 years of Negro progress ([Detroit], 1940), by Charles H. Wesley and John C. Dancy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ann Arbor Negro yearbook. ([publisher not identified], between 1000 and 1999) (page images at HathiTrust)