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Studies effectiveness of the community barometer, initiated in January 1944.

Analyzes attitudes of a sample of voters, of which 19% were Negroes, in 1952 elections. Reveals no significant racial differences.

pg. 82-105. Attitudes toward Negroes and Negro-White Relations.
Reports attitudes of several hundred Detroit area residents, about 11% black, in summer 1951, as revealed by in-depth interviews.

Includes data on employment, housing, crime, education, churches, and so forth, largely from Negro in Detroit, compiled for the Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee, and Haynes Negro Newcomers in Detroit.

Recommends dispersal of future low income housing, integration at first grade and following, preparation for changes in school curricula, personnel, and parent education, with September 1971 as target date for achieving balance.

Presents "factual data covering a wide range of tension areas," among them employment of Negro women (pg. 11) and upgrading of black workers in war plants (pg. 13-14), Sojourner Truth Housing Project (pg. 50-59), and Detroit police brutality (pg.…

Contrasts state white and non-white rates; discusses Michigan's unfavorable position in state rankings and the number on Michigan killer of non-whites--tuberculosis.

Studies both internal dynamics and external accomplishments of several civil rights groups in Grand Rapids 1961-1964. Notes that all may work effectively if at least one threatens or precipitates change.

Editor of Michigan Chronicle and President of Michigan Civil Rights Federation join President of Michigan Division, National Negro Congress, in pointing out to Ford Motor Company the racial implications of their action in the Ford Strike.

Gives historical and current information on a "stable and egalitarian" community, biracial for more than a century, Cass County Michigan.