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Describes a typical Southern scene for labor recruitment to auto plants, types of jobs available, wages paid, and living conditions of Detroit's new in-migrants.

Analyzes ninety-six cases to determine referral source, nature of problem, services given by the Bureau, length of services, and reasons for closing the case.

Concludes on basis of 1962 interview study of male children of unemployed Negro couples that the "boys do not perceive an open opportunity structure; they feel powerless in the environment, but not necessarily normless."

Excerpt from Shostak,…

Describes business efforts to hire unemployed, and rebuild the inner city following July 1967

Considers causes and consequences of unequal educational conditions in Michigan school districts.

Promotional brochure

Reports an unsuccessful reading and speech improvement program for sixty-eight inner city children.

Papers from the History Seminar v.18, Kalamazoo College. Describes some slave escapes, and underground railroad activities, citing Kalamazoo Gazette as chief information source.

Sees employment and housing discrimination continuing, police brutality lessening.