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Finds no cases of active but some of passive discrimination. Recommends an affirmative action employment program

Includes text of speeches by panelists at the workshop on urban problems.

Areas discussed include housing, education, employment, attitude of churches.

Describes and evaluates many Detroit programs (as production of pre-primer series using Negro characters; second-hand paperback libraries in English classrooms; summer program; adult after-school and evening classes in skills areas; child help;…

Volumes in Michigan Historical Collections cover 1899-1900, 1923.

Lists and describes the Benevolent Society, Willing Workers Society, and Phyllis Wheatley Home of Detroit; Ann Arbor's Women's Club; and two Negro working-girls' homes, one in Detroit, the other in Grand Rapids.

An Episcopal Bishop describes his childhood in Grand Rapids. A one-page biography of Burgess precedes his essay.

[Paper given before the Class in Religion and Life of All Soul's Church] Summarizes accomplishments despite many obstacles in employment, education, housing.

Describes extradition cases involving Grand Rapids resident, formerly of Mississippi, and a Detroit war plant employee, formerly of Alabama, both accused, in their home states, of "assault with intent to murder."

Council, formerly called Negro Leadership Conference, is chaired by Dr. W. W. Plummer. Constitution was examined at Grand Rapids Human Relations Commission.