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pg. 17-20: Michigan.

Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.

Cooperative Study with Michigan Employment Security Commission and U.S. Employment Service looks at unemployment and underemployment, by sex, age, race, and other population characteristics in inner city Detroit area in late 1966.

Solicits money for purchase and equipping of the van.

Quotes Congressman Marcantonio, president of International Labor Defense, as condemning Report of Governor's Committee on the Detroit Riots.

Part of the survey examines ten cities, among them Detroit, "to determine what relationship exists between four socio-economic characteristics of a population, and the location and resources of branch libraries"

p. 127-143. Detroit: the Write-in Challenge. Describes Klan influx and influence in Detroit after World War I; summarizes Sweet Case, and preceding attempted move-ins by Dr. Alex Turner and James Fletcher.

Studies "social histories of group of unmarried mothers [87% black] as to their common characteristics, their differences, the problems presented by them other than financial, and the services rendered by agency to the mother and child."

Reviews racial problems in the Jackson public schools.