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Covers period beginning with 1688; bibliography cites relevant manuscripts and published material at Burton Historical Collection.

Cites federal and state judicial decisions regarding employment, housing, education, public accommodations.

"First three chapters are a brief account of Michigan's slave heritage."

pg. 82-105. Attitudes toward Negroes and Negro-White Relations.
Reports attitudes of several hundred Detroit area residents, about 11% black, in summer 1951, as revealed by in-depth interviews.

Analyzes attitudes of a sample of voters, of which 19% were Negroes, in 1952 elections. Reveals no significant racial differences.

Bunche's first ten years were lived in Detroit.

Studies effectiveness of the community barometer, initiated in January 1944.

Contains charts, tables, and text discussion of migration by state, by race, distributed by age and sex, for census decades.

Describes precipitating incident as arrest of six Negro men in Ace's Grill on 294 LaBelle, on charges of loitering. Lists Glen Showerman as temporary chairman.

Interview results of arrestees made ten days after Riots started, showed more than half were over twenty-five, some 85% had some high school education, 75% were employed, and "moderates" outnumbered "militants."