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Presents "statement prepared by the Inner City Parents Council, affiliated with the Inner City Organizing Committee," asking for curricula revisions and employment of many more black teachers

Believes mood of blacks in Detroit and elsewhere, is changing.

Describes brutal treatment of black rioters and observers.

Details events of Detroit's Riot.

Partial Contents: WIlliam Ferguson Blazed path to Legislature after Proving Phenomenal Vote-Getting Power (pg. 2+); History of Negroes in City Post Office Dates from 1871 (pg. 5+); D. Augustus Straker, first Negro elected Court Commissioner (pg. 6);…

Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.

Reprint of article from Detroit Advertiser of March 15, 1859, entitled, "Movement on the Underground."

Charges are made by black members of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 26.

Reprinted as pg. 64- 67 of Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro, 191601966. New York, Crowell, 1967.

Exhibit at the Historical Museum was gathered together with the help of the Heirloom Society, Booker T. Washington Trade Association and other groups and individuals.