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

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

Describes migration to Lansing during World War II. Finds migrated Lansing Negro women, on growing affluent, drop their Southern cooking and medical habits.

Presents miscellaneous data, as number of churches by denomination, building ownership status, geographical distribution and migrations status of members, church sponsored activities and narrative materials on store-front and spiritualist churches.

Finds "non-wite population highly stable, so far as migration within metropolitan subregion [is] concerned."

"An excellent preliminary survey of the condition of Negroes in Detroit with a brief summary of causes of migration. Includes a program of action for the churches." Contains much factual information on where Negroes lived and worked, amount of rent…

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…

Includes data on employment, housing, crime, education, churches, and so forth, largely from Negro in Detroit, compiled for the Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee, and Haynes Negro Newcomers in Detroit.

Contains charts, tables, and text discussion of migration by state, by race, distributed by age and sex, for census decades.

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