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Exploratory study of formal educational experiences of Negro youth living in a Detroit poverty area finds low-motivated students to be skeptical of early success and to maintain low aspirations after early failures.

Outlines organization of NAACP Youth Councils in Detroit and urges attendance at National Conference in Detroit June 29-July 4.

Persons studied are "a group of young Negro adolescents, living in a lower social-economic area of a great industrial metropolis."

Finds a "dearth of available residential and institutional facilities for both delinquent and pre-delinquent boys." Tabulates present facilities and indicate their racial policies.

Urges positive post-Riot program, including implementation of "Eight Point Program of 'Immediate and Effective Community Action' Proposed by R.J. Thomas, President UAW-CIO." Includes program text.

Contains review of previous related projects and description of target area; analysis of life style of youths; tabulations of related social agencies, public and private; educational programs; recreation facilities; job training and employment…

Studies sixty-seven non-white trainees, nearly three quarters women, a majority of whom felt YEP vestibule training helpful.

Through questionnaires studies family characteristics, and nature of crime committed by boys who have had two or more court hearings, living in two inner city Detroit areas.