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Quotes from reports, letters, newspaper articles to prove that interracial public housing has worked other places and should be practiced in Detroit.

Analyzes characteristics, membership, neighborhood problems, typical activities, of block clubs in a predominantly Negro area.

Surveys social statistics and social services available in area 62% black.

Reports on racial policies of individual United community Service agencies offering camping services, help to the aged, and to children. A six page supplement, issued three months later, showed some agencies to have modified their racial policies.

Presents information on restrictive attitudes and practices of financial institutions and of realtors.

Analyzes "various economic, occupational and social welfare problems in Detroit in need of adjustment."

Tries "to answer the most frequent and pressing questions raised."

Describes the project, a workshop of sixteen sessions at which community leaders talk with thirteen to sixteen year olds on career choices.

Concludes, from a sample of one hundred aged Negores, living in Detroit's tenth police precinct and receiving old age assistance in 1960 that the aged Negro "is in double jeopardy: first by being a Negro and second by being aged"