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Describes "Better Tomorrow for the Urban Child" Program (BTU) aimed at helping "inner-city children become more effective citizens."

Partial Contents:-Brief Industrial History of Flint. -Population of Flint. -Housing Situation in Flint, Michigan. -Census of Problem Children in the Flint Public Schools, School Year 1935-1936

Describes objectives of Committee, headed by Horace White, to help delinquent black youth.

Considers also, effectiveness of organizations aiding job-seeking youth, and these youth's attitudes toward further training.

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.

Investigates the July 1967 torture-murder of black youths, allegedly by the Detroit police.

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

Youth are judged by their reading level to be, in actual performance, several grades below their school-assigned grade. This policy of "social promotion," increases school drop-out chances, and almost insures failure at jobs assigned because of…

Negro Youth. Presents data, secured from youth agencies, as to numbers, place of residence, living conditions, delinquency, employment, ratings on intelligence and aptitude tests, education, organizational affiliation, recreational interests and…