Study of one hundred and fifty Negro males in Lansing shows status achievement in occupation, income and especially in education, leads to participation in collective action to reduce discrimination.
Urges positive post-Riot program, including implementation of "Eight Point Program of 'Immediate and Effective Community Action' Proposed by R.J. Thomas, President UAW-CIO." Includes program text.
Concludes, from a sample of one hundred aged Negores, living in Detroit's tenth police precinct and receiving old age assistance in 1960 that the aged Negro "is in double jeopardy: first by being a Negro and second by being aged"
Doubled Negro population of last decade is still handicapped by limits, both business and union imposed, on Negro upward mobility. Recommends employer, community and minority group practices to overcome inequity.