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The Detroit Urban League director tells of his 42-year service.

In unnamed mid-western city of 180,000 population, students in largely white schools did not have higher achievement scores and self images than students in racially mixed schools.

Explains Flint School Board's program to insure non-segregation in schools.

(U.S. Office of Education Bulletin, 1964, no.20) Summarizes experiences in twenty schools, four of which are in Detroit.

Considers causes and consequences of unequal educational conditions in Michigan school districts.

pg. 414-416. Epilogue: Rabbits in a Strange World. Recounts circumstances leading to Haywood Patterson's imprisonment at Jackson and death in Michigan in 1952.

Includes data from first census of 1963; makes recommendations

Surveys school population in preceding decade and makes projections for five-year period. Finds physical facilities in Campeau area increasingly inadequate. Criticizes policy of assigning Negro teachers.

Surveys "economic ability of white and non-white families to buy low-cost housing in an open-occupancy market."

Compares 114 Negro, 1482 white students in four junior high schools "in the urbanized, industrialized Midwest"; finds self-concept a better predicter of success than I.Q.