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Cooperative Study with Michigan Employment Security Commission and U.S. Employment Service looks at unemployment and underemployment, by sex, age, race, and other population characteristics in inner city Detroit area in late 1966.

Surveys attitudes toward police of black residents of Elmwood Park Relocation Area No. 1 in 1962

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.

Includes brief biographies of Cazzie Russell, Eddie Tolan, Joe Louis, Gene Lipscomb, Henry Carr, Hayes Jones, and Sugar Ray Robinson

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

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"

Exploratory study of formal educational experiences of Negro youth living in a Detroit poverty area finds low-motivated students to be skeptical of early success and to maintain low aspirations after early failures.

Reports a leadership training program for members of Federation of Aid to Dependent Children Mothers.

Analyzes area which has "changed from middle-class white to middle-class Negro to lower-class Negro."