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Includes data on employment, housing, crime, education, churches, and so forth, largely from Negro in Detroit, compiled for the Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee, and Haynes Negro Newcomers in Detroit.

Study compares social, psychological and occupational differences between Negros and whites in the 1951 population of state prison at Jackson.

[Paper given before the Class in Religion and Life of All Soul's Church] Summarizes accomplishments despite many obstacles in employment, education, housing.

Includes description and statistics of Detroit Visiting Nurse Association with an 11.6% Negro staff, which employed its first Negro nurse, Edith Lampkins, in 1918.

Makes infrequent references (i.e., pg. 21, 34, 54, 65, 68, 79) to Michigan developments - a Negro assembly in Bay City, and comments on all-Negro assemblies in Advance and Labor Leaf, and Plain-dealer.

Examines "how the Negro has served in the legislative body of the village"; gives brief biographies of all Negroes who served on the Council.

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.

Color distribution of students and teachers, status of Negro history, and number of relevant books in library is reported for Northwestern and Miller.

Narrates exploits of Eugene Beatty, Booker Brooks, De Hart Hubbard, Benjamin Goode, Harry C. Graves, Joe Louis, Percy Stanley Simmons, Gideon Smith, Eddie Tolan, Allen Wesley, Willis Ward, William Watson, and Sports writer Russ Cowan.

Presents educational and economic data, history, names of past and present residents, active social agencies of political subdivisions in parts of Allegan, Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties.