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Discusses relationship of Henry Ford to Negro ministers; Negro politics in the area; job selling at Ford.

Describes OEO-funded project, co-sponsored by Wayne and Detroit Public Schools to improve job counseling in selected inner city schools.

Reports results of interviews in two predominantly black Detroit communities with high unemployment, one east side, one west side, as to expectations of violence if recession continues.

Describes a three-month program, believed to have helped Lansing achieve a cool 1967 summer, in which nine workers opened "lines of communication from the city government to the community."
Examined at Grand Rapids Human Relations Commission.

Interview results of arrestees made ten days after Riots started, showed more than half were over twenty-five, some 85% had some high school education, 75% were employed, and "moderates" outnumbered "militants."

Cites federal and state judicial decisions regarding employment, housing, education, public accommodations.

Describes employment situation in Detroit area, and the creation and work of the Detroit Office of the Committee on Fair Employment Practices and of the Minority Group Service Division of the War Manpower Commission.

Includes data on employment, housing, crime, education, churches, and so forth, largely from Negro in Detroit, compiled for the Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee, and Haynes Negro Newcomers in Detroit.

Cooperative Study with Michigan Employment Security Commission and U.S. Employment Service looks at unemployment and underemployment, by sex, age, race, and other population characteristics in inner city Detroit area in late 1966.