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Contains brief passage on life in Michigan by a man born a slave in Georgia.

"Compares representative samples of Negro and white aged living in [Detroit] metropolitan area and points out the differences in need for, use of, and out-of-pocket expenditures for health services."

Describes an experiment in Ypsilanti in teaching functionally retarded, culturally deprived Negro preschool children.

Consult Index: Epsilon [chapter, University of Michigan]; Gamma Lambda [graduate chapter, Detroit]; Alpha Upsilon [chapter, Detroit].

Lists three past Grand Exalted Rulers from Detroit (Arthur J. Riggs, Dr. J.W. Ames and Wallace Williams) and shows locations and names of all Michigan lodges.

Gives founding dates and first officers of Mt. Pavan Lodge No.45, Unity Lodge No. 46 in Detroit, and North Star Lodge of Grand Rapids, all of which united to form Unity Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Michigan.

Quotes from studies of Negro in Detroit following first World War; states that delegates from Michigan attended second annual meeting of Nation Labor Union [Colored] in January, 1871.

Study covers selling period 1952-1957

Reports reactions of students to the preprimers in City Schools Reading Program

Describes Detroit Writers' Project which in preparing new pre-primer series, studied language development and interests of inner-city child. (Reprinted as p.129-136 of The Under-achiever in Reading, Proceedings of the Annual conference on reading…