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Finds best adjusted women, among forty-five Lansing Negroes, had best health and dietary habits.

Tests of 416 whites and two hundred Negroes at age fourteen find Negores less hostile and neurotic.

Examines attitudes of mothers in a near east-side Detroit area.

Using questionnaires and interviews, compiles such data as types of work, conditions of labor, hours, methods of pay, discriminatory practices toward Negro workers, relationship with unions.

Gives history and description of the practices in Detroit's Negro community.

Using "census documents, city directories, newspapers, general histories of Detroit and Michigan and of the Negro" describes Negro community in Detroit up to about 1910.

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.

Has many references to Negroes including location of black churches, description of Underground Railroad, and of Faulkner and Blackburn riots.

Volume 5: Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and West of Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica. pg. 80-88: Michigan. Quotes descriptions of cases from court reports.

Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.