Identifies and evaluates some of the major approaches now emerging in teaching black history, as revealedin work shops of more than 500 teachers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County elementary and secondary schools.
Reprints story from Liberator, September 11, 1958, of punishment dealt a Negro who helped white Southerners recapture two escaped slaves, living in Detroit.
Study covers persons living in a public housing project, in low-cost downtown hotels and rooming houses, and in their own homes. Groups were about equally divided, black and white.
Analyzes "ecomomic setting, employment, relief and emergency work, housing, health, hosptials, insurance, crime and juvenille delinquency, education, Negro business and professional pursuits, churches and social agencies," by means of interviews with…