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The Affects of Socio-Economic Variables on Open Occupancy Votes in Three Cities
Compares Detroit's 1964 vote on open occupancy with those in Berkeley, California, and Akron, Ohio; finds "considerable uniformity of voting behavior on race-related issues."
Race Attitudes and Responses to the Riot in the Community
Captioned as "Chapter Twelve," this is apparently part of a study of the Riot
The Black Athlete, Emergence and Arrival.
Includes brief biographies of Cazzie Russell, Eddie Tolan, Joe Louis, Gene Lipscomb, Henry Carr, Hayes Jones, and Sugar Ray Robinson
The Negro in Sports.
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.
Aspirations and Social Class in Pockets of Poverty: a Study of Educational Obsolescence.
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.
"Training in Being Trained," Observations on Low-Income Leaders
Reports a leadership training program for members of Federation of Aid to Dependent Children Mothers.
Twelfth Street: an Analysis of a Changed Neighborhood
Analyzes area which has "changed from middle-class white to middle-class Negro to lower-class Negro."
The Negro and the Police, a Study of the Attitudes of a Sample of Lower Class Negroes toward the Police.
Surveys attitudes toward police of black residents of Elmwood Park Relocation Area No. 1 in 1962
The Algiers Motel Incident
Investigates the July 1967 torture-murder of black youths, allegedly by the Detroit police.
Black Neighbors: Negroes in a Northern Rural Community.
Gives historical and current information on a "stable and egalitarian" community, biracial for more than a century, Cass County Michigan.