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Gives much detail of living conditions when describing setting in which various tales were narrated.

Presents biographical information on the Calvin story-teller, James Douglas Suggs.

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

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.

Lists and describes the Benevolent Society, Willing Workers Society, and Phyllis Wheatley Home of Detroit; Ann Arbor's Women's Club; and two Negro working-girls' homes, one in Detroit, the other in Grand Rapids.

Uses one paragraph to summarize types and numbers of black artisans in Michigan.

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…

Summary of 1960 hearings in Detroit (p.125-127) contains some reference to police-community relations.

Gives scattered and unindexed information, i.e. names of state Negro women dentists, size of state Negro dental societies, distribution of Negro dentists by state, 1940 and 1945

Includes interviews with two ex-Detroiters, Edward Barnett, presently resident of Paris, and Diane Gray of Stockholm