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An Exploratory Study in Depth of Eleven Male Negro College Students from Economically Deprived Urban Families, a Milieu Demonstrated as Sociologically Unfavorable for Educational Mobility, in an Attempt to Identify Specific Factors That Could Have Motivated or Enabled These Individuals to Obtain Some College Education
The eleven were Wayne State University students in 1964.
Challenge to Change in the Urban Church
Discusses role of church in the Inner City.
Three Trucks for Mississippi; Two Michigan Men Gave Hope to a Deprived People
Describes Flint volunteer project directed by Steve Mosley.
Self-Determination: an Exploratory Study of the Characteristics of Participants and Non-Participants in the West Central Organization
Finds WCO has a leadership coalition of residents and non-residents and "real potential for developing effective self-help effort."
Employment of Negroes in Local Transit Industry
Detroit, among three cities having most Negroes in transit industry, first employed Negroes as motormen in 1900, as conductors in 1937.
History of Freemasonry among Negroes in America
Cites action of 1873 and 1899 when colored Masons petitioned the Grand Lodge of Michigan for recognition and affiliation.
If We Can't Solve the Problems of the Ghetto Here, God Help Our Country
Detroit's auto industry undertakes large scale training and hiring of the ghetto hard-core unemployed.
Race Riots Coming
Reports on conditions in other areas following Detroit's Race Riot; reproduces picture which "did much to further the Negro cause. A colored man is held by unconcerned Detroit cops while a white man slaps his face."
Slum Clearance Farce
Describes housing conditions near site of proposed Brewster-Douglas Project.
The Story of My Life
pg. 301-311. The Negro in the North. Describes the Sweet Case.