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Surveys community attitudes and asses cultural awareness of Detroit black community.

Finds greatest differences between deprived, largely black, and advantaged, predominantly white children in a "midwestern suburb of 60,000" relate to speech pattern-analogs, grammar, vocabulary.

Contrasts recall processes and performance gains of lower-class Negro and middle-class white children during first and second grades.

Findings indicate superior ability of middle class seems to lie in language ability.

Center for research Language and Language Behavior; ERIC Document ED017924

Data secured from in-depth interviews concern social and economic status; use of leisure; patterns of family life; attitudes toward neighborhood, and local schools; interracial contacts; political, community, civil rights involvement; work…

Through questionnaires studies family characteristics, and nature of crime committed by boys who have had two or more court hearings, living in two inner city Detroit areas.

Compares twenty students, eqully divided by color and sex, in ninth and tenth grades of a small Detroit Catholic high school.

Finds Negroes "have become the most solid Democratic voting block in Detroit."
p. 58-67. Racial and Ethnic Vote Pattern.

Compares performance of 355 Negro, Polish, and white American ten-year-old pupils in Detroit and Hamtramck on both types of tests; finds Negro children do not consistently score lower than white.

Describes brief orientation program with advance commitment of jobs.