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Regiment Colored Infantry (102d U.S.) Reprints official correspondence, giving authroization for raising the regiment, and rosters of officers; includes military history of the regiment.

In unnamed mid-western city of 180,000 population, students in largely white schools did not have higher achievement scores and self images than students in racially mixed schools.

[Jackson's Pattern of Integration] Finds community lags behind school system in racial practices.

The Tragedy of the La Force Family. Episode concerning capture of North Carolina loyalist whites and 13 slaves and their transportation to and transfer in Detroit as prisoners during the Revolutionary War, is reconstructed from accounts in family…

Studies internal variations in two areas in the black succession to white migration from the central city.

Summarizes UAW activities aimed at equal opportunity.
An excerpt from Equal Opportunity Is Good Labor Practice

Includes examples and statistics on discrimination from Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission files; narrates UAW efforts to achieve equality.

Gives 1955/57 data on black use of Wayne State and Michigan University medical training facilities; includes Detroit amoung fourteen communities studied as to "medical care by and for Negroes."

An excerpt from Westin, Alan F., ed. Freedom Now! The Civil Rights Struggle in America

Originally printed as p. 369-372 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960, and December 15, 1960. Washington,…

"Written shortly after [the author] had concluded six years' work organizing and serving block clubs"