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Details events of Detroit's Riot.

Partial Contents: WIlliam Ferguson Blazed path to Legislature after Proving Phenomenal Vote-Getting Power (pg. 2+); History of Negroes in City Post Office Dates from 1871 (pg. 5+); D. Augustus Straker, first Negro elected Court Commissioner (pg. 6);…

Evaluates "busing experience of ninety Negro children in white suburbs of Detroit [Ypsilanti?] in 1966-67."

Reply to earlier letter points out inaccuracies in that writer's defense of University of Michigan practices.

Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.

Stresses need to preserve materials on local black history, and suggests how to find material now available in archives.

Reprint of article from Detroit Advertiser of March 15, 1859, entitled, "Movement on the Underground."

Charges are made by black members of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 26.

Reprinted as pg. 64- 67 of Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro, 191601966. New York, Crowell, 1967.

Detroit's Barthwell Chain.