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Give biography of woman who lived her later years and died in Battle Creek.

White woman describes her impressions of Negro women attending the Detroit Convention of the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs.

Finds best adjusted women, among forty-five Lansing Negroes, had best health and dietary habits.

Examines attitudes of mothers in a near east-side Detroit area.

Of three groups compared as to weight, practices on vitamin, iron, and mineral diet supplements, and eating permissiveness, one is Negro women, aged forty to ninety, living in an industrial area, probably Lansing.

Autobiography relates Mrs. Haviland's life in "educational and missionary effort among Canadian Negroes near Detroit River in early fifties."

Studies "social histories of group of unmarried mothers [87% black] as to their common characteristics, their differences, the problems presented by them other than financial, and the services rendered by agency to the mother and child."

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.…

Traditional child rearing attidues characterize poor women who have never worked outside the home.

Chapters on Detroit and Hamtramck cite work of Mesdames Pinkie Taylor, Dollie Gladden, Mary Shields and Emma Cheeseboro.