Browse Items (1497 total)

Gives brief information on black Catholics in Detroit and Michigan; number of members, missions, schools, as of 1928 and 1940.

(Special Studies in U.S. Economic and Social Development) Compares those characterstics of six large school systems which relate to financing, administration, innovation. For Detroit, emphasizes degree of openness, as "measured by nature of power and…

p. 287-296. The Calvin Negro Colony.

Central High School English Director reports results of a survey of 1200 Detroit high school students' familiarity with "unacceptable" speech patterns.

Uses Detroit primary grade children in project to test effectiveness of tapes in developing their standard English dialect.

p. 38-40. The Experience of One Church. Tells how Friendship Babptist Church bought a site and financed a building in a redeveloped area.

p. 20-22 Free Schools and the Negro. Gives background of court case which abolished "separate colored schools" in Detroit.

Describes and evaluates many Detroit programs (as production of pre-primer series using Negro characters; second-hand paperback libraries in English classrooms; summer program; adult after-school and evening classes in skills areas; child help;…

Studies interaction of black students from Old Carver School District in Royal Oak Township and white students in Oak Park, after annexation by latter of former district.