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Reports survey by University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research on Characteristics and attitudes of 1967 Riot participants in Detroit and Newark.

Gives police account of shooting of Cynthia Scott on July 5, 1963.

Sees the Sojourner Truth Riots as evidence of failure of municipal authorities to halt Black Legion and KKK activities.

Author, on grant from Fund for Adult Education, visits community leaders in several cities; in Detroit meets Mary Ann Davis, Beulah Whitby, Iris Cox, Prophet (Dr. James F.) Jones, Ulysses Boykin, Cora Brown, Glady Johnson, the Thomas family, John…

Covers period 1899 to date.

Describes the four-year old Catholic Committee for Negro History Week.

Exhibit at the Historical Museum was gathered together with the help of the Heirloom Society, Booker T. Washington Trade Association and other groups and individuals.

Detroit's Barthwell Chain.

Reprinted as pg. 64- 67 of Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro, 191601966. New York, Crowell, 1967.

Charges are made by black members of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 26.