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Study based on questionnaires of 284 Detroit high school students in 1963, recommends strengthened guidance program to produce more mature occupational choices.

On Racial Rioting in Detroit. Gives text of interview with Mayor Cavanagh on "Meet the Press" on July 30, 1967

Summarizes Faulkner and Blackburn Riots; describes Underground Railroad.

Describes boyhood in Detroit.

The Tragedy of the La Force Family. Episode concerning capture of North Carolina loyalist whites and 13 slaves and their transportation to and transfer in Detroit as prisoners during the Revolutionary War, is reconstructed from accounts in family…

Gives 1955/57 data on black use of Wayne State and Michigan University medical training facilities; includes Detroit amoung fourteen communities studied as to "medical care by and for Negroes."

An excerpt from Westin, Alan F., ed. Freedom Now! The Civil Rights Struggle in America

Originally printed as p. 369-372 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960, and December 15, 1960. Washington,…

Lists debits and credits in the Detroit racial picture

Attributes Detroit's racial peace in part to excellent Negro leadership, much of it union-based.

Describes looting in Detroit 1967 and in other riots.