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Riots and Rebellion, Civil Violence in the Urban Community. Reports on seventy-seven interviews with Grand Rapids clergymen including five Negro Protestant ministers, on reactions to Grand Rapids Riot of July 24, 1967.

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.

Describes a three-month program, believed to have helped Lansing achieve a cool 1967 summer, in which nine workers opened "lines of communication from the city government to the community."
Examined at Grand Rapids Human Relations Commission.

Synthesizes interviews with nearly fifty Grand Rapids Negro leaders into an analysis of the black community and its leadership.

Not examined; file copy available for use at National Urban League Offices in New York

Analyzes "ecomomic setting, employment, relief and emergency work, housing, health, hosptials, insurance, crime and juvenille delinquency, education, Negro business and professional pursuits, churches and social agencies," by means of interviews with…

Lists many individuals, as ministers, homeowners, firsts in various employment cateogries; describes several interracial episodes, evidently using newspapers as sources.

Reports information secured through interviews on employment and housing conditions in parts of city having largest Negro populations. Finds conditions vastly improved over 1940, but much yet to be achieved.