Lists and describes the Benevolent Society, Willing Workers Society, and Phyllis Wheatley Home of Detroit; Ann Arbor's Women's Club; and two Negro working-girls' homes, one in Detroit, the other in Grand Rapids.
Investigates "three of the conditions under which [eighty fifth and sixth grade Negro boys in two integrated Detroit Public Schools] would exhibit differential levels of belief that events are beyond personal control."
With "evidence obtained from the study of a single large, Norther urban public-school system" [Detroit] demonstrates "that our public-school system has become an instrument of social and economic class distinctions in American society."