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Surveys usual recreational activities of Kalamazoo Negro youth, and present use of Douglass Community Center; lists unfulfilled needs and recommends larger, more diversified program with additional paid staff.

Self concepts of black youths in a 1966 federally funded project seem related to skin color but educational expectations do not.

Covers employment, education, housing, and law enforcement, naming persons, companies, unions, and public agencies accused of discrimination.

Summarizes meeting of craft and industrial unions in Kalamazoo on March 8, 1958, on topic "Role of Trade Unions in Equal Employment Opportunity."

Doubled Negro population of last decade is still handicapped by limits, both business and union imposed, on Negro upward mobility. Recommends employer, community and minority group practices to overcome inequity.

Presents a brief history of blacks in Kalamazoo; discusses housing and employment situation, then evaluates school board's action in eliminating junior high program at Lincoln School.

Papers from the History Seminar v.18, Kalamazoo College. Describes some slave escapes, and underground railroad activities, citing Kalamazoo Gazette as chief information source.

Survey directed by Fisk University shows restricted employment opportunities, particularly in paper and chemical manufactures and growing segregation in housing, education, use of public agencies.

Summarizes interviews made in 1958, of forty-six Negro, three times as many white families living in integrated sections of Kalamazoo.

Hostility toward police is not widespread, although most important variable in attitudes toward police is race, in Muskegon Heights, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo.