{"value"=>"<p> Files for the subseries <span class=\"title\">Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW, 1976-1981</span> (4.6. lin. ft.) contain research information used by Meier and Rudwick in their 1970 book concerning fair labor practices within the UAW that resulted in major gains for African Americans, both inside and outside the automotive manufacturing plants. For their research efforts for this book, Meier and Rudwick were acknowledged with the Philip Taft Labor History Award for 1979. The bulk of the reference material consists of photocopies of files from the late 1930's-1940's gleaned from other archival repositories, notes, a dissertation and other papers. Many files discuss the roles of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and its Office of Production Management and War Manpower Commission. Other organizations represented are the Metropolitan Detroit Fair Employment Practice Council, the War Policy Division of the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Ford Motor Company, and the UAW. During 1976-1978 Meier and Rudwick conducted a number of interviews with individuals involved in the integration of the UAW in the 1940's, such as Clarence Johnson, Louis Martin, Oscar Noble, Horace Sheffield and Roy Wilkins. There are research files for several automobile plant strikes (including hate strikes), particularly those at Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation, and Packard Motor Car Company. The influence of the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan is also discussed, as is the lack of employment of African-American women. This subseries includes numerous reference articles about African Americans in the automobile industry by such researchers as Lloyd Bailer, Ralph Bunche, Glen E. Carlson, and Paul Herbert Norgren. Background material is provided in copies of Michigan newspapers and Meier's notes for the period 1919-1943. Finally, the collection concludes with Meier and Rudwick's research correspondence, correspondence with the publisher, book reviews and the Taft Award both authors received.</p>"}