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Describes settlements in Cass County, the first Detroit families, and Michigan's importance in the Underground Railroad.

Deals with "population growth, civil and social status, migration, unique institutional and occupational strides."

Analyzes Old Age and Survivor Insurance data of year 1947 to determine labor mobility in Ohio and Michigan by sex and race.

Gives text of the platform of a convention meeting in Cleveland, August 24-26, 1854, favoring voluntary emigration and colonization. President of the 102-member convention was William C. Monroe of Michigan.

This second of three studies (Howcott-Ponder-Wassenaar) of residents of Hastings-Dequindre-Canfield-Watkins area concentrates on health needs.

Through interviews of Detroiters of ten or fewer years of residence, living in Hastings-Dequindre, Canfield-Watkins area, "examines problems encountered their effect on migrant's overall adjustment and the] steps that might be taken to extend more…

Studies "adjustment of seventy-five Negro men, ages twenty to fifty who migrated to Ypsilanti during the years 1940 to 1957."

This third study of Detroit families of ten years or less, living in area bounded by Hastings, Dequindre, Canfield, and Watkings, concludes Detroit must provide better housing facilites for its lower class Begro residents (See also Ponder and Howcott…

This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.

Attorney Ramon A. Martinez, President of the Detroit branch, describes the Greater Liberia Plan of the Negro Nationalist Society