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Part of the survey examines ten cities, among them Detroit, "to determine what relationship exists between four socio-economic characteristics of a population, and the location and resources of branch libraries"

Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.

Investigates methods employed for improving interracial education in a kindergarten located in a changing neighborhood of Detroit.

Youth are judged by their reading level to be, in actual performance, several grades below their school-assigned grade. This policy of "social promotion," increases school drop-out chances, and almost insures failure at jobs assigned because of…

Comparison of parent-school communications finds parents in low income Negro schools to have higher interest in education and to initiate more school contacts than parents in racially mixed schools.

Exploratory study of formal educational experiences of Negro youth living in a Detroit poverty area finds low-motivated students to be skeptical of early success and to maintain low aspirations after early failures.

This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.

Describes selection and use of Afro-American materials at Pontiac's Jefferson and Detroit's Sherrard Junior High Schools.

Autobiography relates Mrs. Haviland's life in "educational and missionary effort among Canadian Negroes near Detroit River in early fifties."