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Through interviews of Detroiters of ten or fewer years of residence, living in Hastings-Dequindre, Canfield-Watkins area, "examines problems encountered their effect on migrant's overall adjustment and the] steps that might be taken to extend more…

p. 26-28 [The Sweet Case]

Contrasts state white and non-white rates; discusses Michigan's unfavorable position in state rankings and the number on Michigan killer of non-whites--tuberculosis.

Presents and assesses figures, some estimated, for period 1940-1970, on population by age, color, and sex.

Predicts that Detroit's 1970 population will see great growth of younger blacks, older whites.

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…

Gives text of talk by Secretary of Ford Local 600 and President of the Council.

Studies both internal dynamics and external accomplishments of several civil rights groups in Grand Rapids 1961-1964. Notes that all may work effectively if at least one threatens or precipitates change.

Comparison of parent-school communications finds parents in low income Negro schools to have higher interest in education and to initiate more school contacts than parents in racially mixed schools.

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