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Describes program giving summer employment to 630 boys, aged fourteen and fifteen, living in seven inner city precincts.

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

Describes Gordy case and its background, and similar episodes of the past.

Gives conference information and names of Guardians' officers and Board.

Papers concern economic and social causes of crime, constitutional problems, community resources and correctional facilities; citizen involvement; crime statistics and reporting; and police personnel

Condemns Detroit Police Department and its Commissioner, Harry S. Toy, for anti-Negro and anti-union violence.

Presents "factual data covering a wide range of tension areas," among them employment of Negro women (pg. 11) and upgrading of black workers in war plants (pg. 13-14), Sojourner Truth Housing Project (pg. 50-59), and Detroit police brutality (pg.…

This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.

Reports interview with Police Commissioner Girardin, Rev. Albert Cleage, and Richard Henry.
pg. 47-60: "Riot" or War?
pg. 116-133: Guerrillas

Urges knowledge of facts, examination of community attitudes, concern over issue of police brutality, and upgrading and professionalization of Police Department