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Summarizes earlier studies of Detroit transitional areas.

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

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.

Compares characteristics of selected families, all black, living in row and high rise units of Jeffries homes.

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.

Examines "how and why [the Commission's] present racial policies developed," and the Commission role in the Sojourner Truth Riot.

Reports among pluses of year, adoption of city fair housing ordinance, and election of first non-white member to city commission. Examined at Jackson Community Relations Department.

p. 127-143. Detroit: the Write-in Challenge. Describes Klan influx and influence in Detroit after World War I; summarizes Sweet Case, and preceding attempted move-ins by Dr. Alex Turner and James Fletcher.

Makes reference to racial composition of Detroit, housing problems, and relationship of Negro to union. Contains vivid description of 1943 Race Riot.

Describes "an inner-city program sponsored by Plymouth United Church of Christ to develop a community organization and group-work program" in an urban redevelopment area.