Describes a typical Southern scene for labor recruitment to auto plants, types of jobs available, wages paid, and living conditions of Detroit's new in-migrants.
Gives text of the platform of a convention meeting in Cleveland, August 24-26, 1854, favoring voluntary emigration and colonization. President of the 102-member convention was William C. Monroe of Michigan.
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.
Through interviews of Detroiters of ten or fewer years of residence, living in Hastings-Dequindre, Canfield-Watkins area, "examines problems encountered their effect on migrant's overall adjustment and the] steps that might be taken to extend more…