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Studies Negro leadership in "Lakeland" (Pontiac?) Michigan, comparing conservative, moderate, and militant styles and emphasizing housing, education, politics, employment, and police and community relations as the most crucial problem areas.

Author is only Michigan Congressman described

Lists persons in "professions, white-collar, semi-skilled."

Briefly narrates accomplishments of such greats as Eddie Tolan, Joe Louis, De Hart Hubbard, Willis Ward; mentions Negro bowling and baseball groups in Michigan.

Gives much detail of living conditions when describing setting in which various tales were narrated.

Contains statistics and tables (as church membership, crime, demographic data, hospitals, employment data, newspapers and periodicals currently published) by state, and often by city.

One Michigan hospital only, Dunbar Memorial in Detroit, is listed as a hospital where Negro interns serve.

Quotes from Negro in Detroit; summarizes and comments on Sweet case.

Chapter 10. The Negro Automobile Worker. P.513-653.Contains more statistical and biographical data than Myrdal's American Dilemma, for which it was prepared.

Explores black worker's relation to management, to white labor, and to the union.