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Describes housing conditions near site of proposed Brewster-Douglas Project.

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

Lists recently established interracial committees, among them Detroit's which has obtained some improvement in taxicab service, housing, and police administration.

Although not identifying the project by name, gives history of proposed Schoolcraft Gardens Housing. The cooperative, organized in 1946, was dissolved in 1950, after opposition from the FHA, the Detroit Mayor and local improvement associations.

Summarizes many case studies of black with unspecified residence. Since one of the co-authors practiced psychiatry in Detroit for many years, many of cases must be of Detroiters.

Of cases described, nineteen concern Negro families.

p. 195-233. Freedom of Residence: the People vs. Ossian H. Sweet et. al. in the Recorder's Court of Detroit--the Negro Segregation Problem. A defense attorney in the Sweet case describes it in great detail.

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

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

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.