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

Describes Great Cities Project; defends and explains its concentration on reading improvement.

Autobiography of late NAACP Executive Secretary refers to Sweet Case, Ford and GM strikes, 1943 Riot and Detroit Branch NAACP.

Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."

Lists recently established interracial committees, among them Detroit's which has obtained some improvement in taxicab service, housing, and police administration.

Gives history of the Rouge-Ecorse United Centers and their predecessor agencies

Describes development of "a vehicle that would improve the quality, quantity and delivery of medical care to our community's poor."

Describes Underground Railroad operations through Battle Creek, gives brief histories of several black families, and of Sojourner Truth, lists blacks and their occupations as given in 1869-70 Calhoun County Business Directory, and gives current…

Summarizes "steps taken by the Negro race in Detroit almost from the days of Cadillac to January 1, 1943."

Michigan. This state-by state directory of cities to which Negroes made large contributions lists, with reasons, Addison, Battle Creek, Cassopolis, Darborn, Detroit, Marshall, Muskegon, and Vandalia.