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