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Protests the barring of 3000-unit housing project to Negro war workers.

pg. 39-55: Neighborhood Improvement Associations. Given results of interviews of property owners and improvement associations in Chicago and Detroit in 1944: number, median size, age, racial policies, failures, attitudes.

Cites federal and state judicial decisions regarding employment, housing, education, public accommodations.

Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.

President of Detroit NAACP condemns housing authorities' policies, cites statistics of unsatisfied need for Negro housing.

Chapter titles include "Political Activities," "Racial Discrimination," and "Employment and Social Class."

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

Analyzes "a neighborhood's initial reponse to Negro invasion."

Presents information on restrictive attitudes and practices of financial institutions and of realtors.

Reports on racial policies of individual United community Service agencies offering camping services, help to the aged, and to children. A six page supplement, issued three months later, showed some agencies to have modified their racial policies.