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The sociologist and the psychologist at Jackson Prison report on studies of ninety-seven Negroes, eight whites committed after the 1943 Riot. Reprinted as pg. 298-304 of Grimshaw, Allen D. Racial Violence in the United States. Chicago, Aldine, 1969.

Describes the near-riot between Negro high school students and Jackson police.

Contents: Jackson Negroes Favor Dignified Equality Drive; Too Many Job Areas Closed, Negroes Say; Moving 'Out" Major Problem to Negroes; Fortunate Negro One Who Adapts Quickly; Chance For Understanding, Good Life by Peaceful Means, Is Negro Wish.

pg. 414-416. Epilogue: Rabbits in a Strange World. Recounts circumstances leading to Haywood Patterson's imprisonment at Jackson and death in Michigan in 1952.

Study compares social, psychological and occupational differences between Negros and whites in the 1951 population of state prison at Jackson.

Examined at office of issuing agency.

Finds I.Q. scores of Jackson Negro kindergartners to increase 6.66 points in two years as social interaction occurs. Examined at Jackson Board of Education.

Summarizes testimony given at hearing and makes recommendations. Examined at Jackson Community Relations office.

[Jackson's Pattern of Integration] Finds community lags behind school system in racial practices.

Reviews racial problems in the Jackson public schools.