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Surveys community attitudes and asses cultural awareness of Detroit black community.

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;…

p. 20-22 Free Schools and the Negro. Gives background of court case which abolished "separate colored schools" in Detroit.

Uses Detroit primary grade children in project to test effectiveness of tapes in developing their standard English dialect.

Central High School English Director reports results of a survey of 1200 Detroit high school students' familiarity with "unacceptable" speech patterns.

(Special Studies in U.S. Economic and Social Development) Compares those characterstics of six large school systems which relate to financing, administration, innovation. For Detroit, emphasizes degree of openness, as "measured by nature of power and…

Gives brief information on black Catholics in Detroit and Michigan; number of members, missions, schools, as of 1928 and 1940.

Describes plans for a four hundred acre camp on Highway 12 about sixty miles from Detroit.

Discusses implications of two conferences, Detroit Policy Conference of March on Washington Movement, September 26-27, 1942, and NAACP Emergency War Conference, June 3-6, 1943, and of Detroit Riot for leadership struggles in the Negro community.

(U.S. Office of Education Bulletin, 1964, no.20) Summarizes experiences in twenty schools, four of which are in Detroit.