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Partial Contents: Smith, John W. and Smith, Lois H. First Amendment Freedoms and the Politics of Mass Participation; Komisaruk, Richard and Pearson, Carol E. Children of the Detroit Riots; Handley, Jame R. The Dynamics of Recent Ghetto Riots; Corsi,…

Includes lists of officers, members of standing committees of the club, formed to "study history, political and social science, a knowledge of the civil and political institutions of the state and nation" Among officers are D. Augustus Straker and…

The Council, chaired by Henry Nickleberry, UAW Sub-Regional Office 1D, was responsible for hiring of the first blacks in Saginaw area retail establishments. Articles were examined in UAW office.

Presents tables, based on census data, of characteristics of the population of Detroit and surrounding counties, 1900-1960, by race, age, ethnic group and other social and economic characteristics

Identifies and evaluates some of the major approaches now emerging in teaching black history, as revealedin work shops of more than 500 teachers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County elementary and secondary schools.

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

Black author uses Detroit for setting of novel attacking lynching; gives footnote defense of his use of term "Afro-American."

Contains Mayor's account of Riots; chronology of events from 3:30 a.m., July 23, 1967 to 8:55 a.m., August 15; statistical data on arrestees; summary of federal programs; demographic statistics; description of New Detroit Committee; and…

This updated version of a 1945 book entitled They Seek a City includes a one-chapter capsule history of Negroes in Detroit.