"Written to bring the reader some interesting background information, historical and current." Some essays deal with local subjects, as schools and city politics.
Using both statistics and case histories, illustrates many inequalities in employment, distribution of patronage and of justice, insurance rates, public accomodations.
Riots and Rebellion, Civil Violence in the Urban Community. Reports on seventy-seven interviews with Grand Rapids clergymen including five Negro Protestant ministers, on reactions to Grand Rapids Riot of July 24, 1967.