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

Describes extradition cases involving Grand Rapids resident, formerly of Mississippi, and a Detroit war plant employee, formerly of Alabama, both accused, in their home states, of "assault with intent to murder."

Gives Committee officers as Eddie Tolan, Chairman; Horace White, Secretary.

Employment rate of project graduates was vastly higher than before training.

Analyzes Old Age and Survivor Insurance data of year 1947 to determine labor mobility in Ohio and Michigan by sex and race.

Detroit auto-worker attacks unions and business-dominated society.

Tests theory that heterogeneous social groupings of pre-school children increase their abilities to utilize later educational experiences.

"Examines role of human relation commissions, school systems, Negro leaders and community action programs in providing job training for the adult," using Detroit as an example. Book chapter in Employment, Race and Poverty.

Racial differences is one of the analyses made of data secured in mid 1950's from interviews of married couples in the Detroit metropolitan area.