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Continues study and evaluation of the Flint Public Schools' "Better Tomorrow for the Urban Child" program.

Briefly describes Sojourner Truth Riot from view-point of "Black Cabinet," advisors to President Roosevelt

Uses occasional Michigan examples, i.e. Will Robinson, Pershing High School coach (p.13-14); George Gaddy, Moore School, Detroit and Reggie Harding of the Pistons (p. 92-94) in describing discrimination in sports.

Ethnic nature is one of characteristics surveyed for each of the 38 areas inventoried.

This and other parts of the study were "an attempt to isolate and study some of the factors that affect the Negro high school drop-out."

Uses case history of Detroit worker to illustrate economic effects of auto manufacturers' attitude change toward employing poor blacks.

p.99-100. Booker T. Washington Trade Association
p.100-102 Housewives' League of Detroit.

Explores role playing of group problems as a training device for helping seventy two black females, hired by Michigan Bell Telephone Company, make the transition "from a culture of poverty to a culture of work."

p. 15-30. Reprinted from the Militant, September 4, 1967. Summarizes repercussions of uprisings.

Chapter 9. Automobiles and Aircraft. p. 186-209. Gives historical and current data, and predicts post-war developments. Chapter 9. Automobiles and Aircraft. p. 186-209.