Presents a brief history of blacks in Kalamazoo; discusses housing and employment situation, then evaluates school board's action in eliminating junior high program at Lincoln School.
In this examination of whether the judge acted in good faith "with ample legal basis," concludes Recorder's Court Judge Crockett's "rulings were plausibly based on law."
Uses Flint Youth Study data to make structural functional analysis of delinquency among two samples of lower class Negro boys, aged twelve to seventeen, one with several police contacts per boy, the other with none.
Through questionnaires studies family characteristics, and nature of crime committed by boys who have had two or more court hearings, living in two inner city Detroit areas.
Describes precipitating incident as arrest of six Negro men in Ace's Grill on 294 LaBelle, on charges of loitering. Lists Glen Showerman as temporary chairman.