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Studies nature of the social service offered to ninety active non-white male cases known to Detroit Department of Public Welfare as of March 1949 where acute illness is the principal problem.

Third article gives reasons "for the Negro leaving the South, chiefly Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, and coming to Detroit in preference to other cities."

Shows the "general social-economic level of 166 communities" in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties through fourteen indices, as income, value of home, occupational level, disrupted marriages, housing conditions."

Finds I.Q. scores of Jackson Negro kindergartners to increase 6.66 points in two years as social interaction occurs. Examined at Jackson Board of Education.

Using Citizens Committee reports of 1958, makes intracomparisons of Detroit school equipment and pupil performances; ranks schools by students' family income level.

Papers from the History Seminar v.18, Kalamazoo College. Describes some slave escapes, and underground railroad activities, citing Kalamazoo Gazette as chief information source.

Summarizes action of "three hundred delegates from one hundred and forty-six different organizations," conferring on KKK, Sojourner Truth, President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, discrimination in war plants, etc.

Describes elements fostering Packard hate strikes, Sojourner Truth Riots, and other divisive activities.

U.S. Housing Official replies to criticism of methods of site clearance for Brewster Housing Project

Describes housing conditions near site of proposed Brewster-Douglas Project.