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Chapter 11. St. Matthew's Church, Detroit, Michigan, p. 117-120

Studies nature of the social service offered to ninety active non-white male cases known to Detroit Department of Public Welfare as of March 1949 where acute illness is the principal problem.

Summarizes "steps taken by the Negro race in Detroit almost from the days of Cadillac to January 1, 1943."

Interviews of twenty Detroit area married couples, half black, confirm hypothesis that if socio-economic status, family composition and religion are comparable, there are no significant racial differences in attitudes toward adoption.

Examines attitudes of residents toward neighbors and toward surroundings in a Detroit area chosen for later urban renewal.

This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.

Detroit auto-worker attacks unions and business-dominated society.

"Examines role of human relation commissions, school systems, Negro leaders and community action programs in providing job training for the adult," using Detroit as an example. Book chapter in Employment, Race and Poverty.

Racial differences is one of the analyses made of data secured in mid 1950's from interviews of married couples in the Detroit metropolitan area.