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Summarizes answers to interviews of 1,448 Model Neighborhood families concerning their "most important problems."

Reports increasing racial segregation in Detroit area, increasing segregation in clubs and organizations, and consequent decreasing community cohesiveness.

Using fictitious names, describes an actual episode, the closing of an automobile paint factory on Detroit's westside in 1967. Presents case histories of several involved blacks, included a UAW international representative.

"Describes functioning of the Citizens Advisory Council in the planning of the new Eastern High School."
ICP Case Series no. 95; published for the Inter-University Case Program

Study contrasts "speech patterns of various socioeconomic groups," correlates speech with social stratification toward goal of better teaching of standard English.

Project no. 6-1347. ERIC Document ED022187.

Reports "the methodology employed in the survey of Detroit speech carried out in 1966-67 by the staff of the Detroit Dialect Study."

Describes the Riot, its background and its aftermath. Appendix contains texts of documents issued during Riot at various governmental levels.

"Study of the efforts of five Detroit group work agencies [in period 1940-1950] to improve their interracial practices and of the community factors which impeded or accelerated these efforts."

Finds Negroes "have become the most solid Democratic voting block in Detroit."
p. 58-67. Racial and Ethnic Vote Pattern.

Using Citizens Committee reports of 1958, makes intracomparisons of Detroit school equipment and pupil performances; ranks schools by students' family income level.