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Lists sponsors, and gives statistics on under-representation of Negro in city employment

Summarizes plan of Virginia Park Citizens Rehabilitation Committee

Clintonia Jackson is selected as Freedom Festival Queen.

pg. 82-105. Attitudes toward Negroes and Negro-White Relations.
Reports attitudes of several hundred Detroit area residents, about 11% black, in summer 1951, as revealed by in-depth interviews.

New Detroit Committee must communicate with both "moderates and militants" in black community.

Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.

Describes a three-month program, believed to have helped Lansing achieve a cool 1967 summer, in which nine workers opened "lines of communication from the city government to the community."
Examined at Grand Rapids Human Relations Commission.

Presents a brief history of blacks in Kalamazoo; discusses housing and employment situation, then evaluates school board's action in eliminating junior high program at Lincoln School.