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This address, made in Detroit, attacks such evidences of racism as Detroit Police Department's "Frame-up" of James Victory, actions of Board of Education, Ford Motor Company, American Federation of Labor and Urban League and NAACP.

Reproduces representative resolutions by civic leaders and organizations, newspaper clippings, etc. Includes a "dossier of documents on the Sojourner Truth project which show that Negro occupancy of the project should begin immediately."

"Written shortly after [the author] had concluded six years' work organizing and serving block clubs"

Compares "labor market experiences and consequent social-political adjustment of Negroes and whites, unemployed as result of Packard Motor Car Company close-down of June 1956."

Reports interview with Police Commissioner Girardin, Rev. Albert Cleage, and Richard Henry.
pg. 47-60: "Riot" or War?
pg. 116-133: Guerrillas

Stresses need to preserve materials on local black history, and suggests how to find material now available in archives.

UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.

Presents miscellaneous data, as number of churches by denomination, building ownership status, geographical distribution and migrations status of members, church sponsored activities and narrative materials on store-front and spiritualist churches.

Characterizes several religious groupings as revealed by the Detroit area study, among them Negro Protestants.

Recommends educational changes to offset effects of father-absence and public welfare support.