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Describes Underground Railroad operations through Battle Creek, gives brief histories of several black families, and of Sojourner Truth, lists blacks and their occupations as given in 1869-70 Calhoun County Business Directory, and gives current…

Uses one paragraph to summarize types and numbers of black artisans in Michigan.

Lists and describes the Benevolent Society, Willing Workers Society, and Phyllis Wheatley Home of Detroit; Ann Arbor's Women's Club; and two Negro working-girls' homes, one in Detroit, the other in Grand Rapids.

Michigan. This state-by state directory of cities to which Negroes made large contributions lists, with reasons, Addison, Battle Creek, Cassopolis, Darborn, Detroit, Marshall, Muskegon, and Vandalia.

Gives history of the Rouge-Ecorse United Centers and their predecessor agencies

Presents biographical information on the Calvin story-teller, James Douglas Suggs.

Gives much detail of living conditions when describing setting in which various tales were narrated.

Analyzes available data on thirty-six known Moslem (sic) families, and compares with group similar except for religion. Concludes that the cult offers some solution to these problem-bound families, but doubts its long range survival.

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Discusses such topics as Negro sufferage in Michigan and enactment of 15th amendment to U.S. Constitution, and number of Negroes voting in 1870 election.