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p. 127-143. Detroit: the Write-in Challenge. Describes Klan influx and influence in Detroit after World War I; summarizes Sweet Case, and preceding attempted move-ins by Dr. Alex Turner and James Fletcher.

Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.

pg. 17-20: Michigan.

Includes physical and social data.

Investigates methods employed for improving interracial education in a kindergarten located in a changing neighborhood of Detroit.

Tells of Sweet case and the 1943 Riots; refers to Detroit as "the top fund raising branch of the NAACP."

Examines those attitudes, values, life styles which would affect upward mobility of residents of a low rent area in Detroit.

Makes occasional references to Detroit, i.e. states "Negro sections were redistricted so as to guard against the Negro having a majority of the voting strength in any congressional district."

Reports results of 1962/63 study of social economic and emotional make-up of over one hundred financially over-extended Detroit area families, 34% of whom are black.

Makes reference to racial composition of Detroit, housing problems, and relationship of Negro to union. Contains vivid description of 1943 Race Riot.