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Includes data on employment, housing, crime, education, churches, and so forth, largely from Negro in Detroit, compiled for the Mayor's Inter-Racial Committee, and Haynes Negro Newcomers in Detroit.

Compares characteristics of selected families, all black, living in row and high rise units of Jeffries homes.

"History of the free Negro in nineteenth century Detroit has been marked by two distinct social phenomena: first, nearly all the city's blacks belonged to a caste apart from the rest of society, and secondly, the black caste was stratified into…

The author's book of the same title, with almost identical text, the same comprehensive bibliography, and the addition of a thorough index, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1973, after the closing date for inclusion In this…

Finds I.Q. scores of Jackson Negro kindergartners to increase 6.66 points in two years as social interaction occurs. Examined at Jackson Board of Education.

Describes Detroit origins of the movement; evaluates educational program.

Concludes from study of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor mothers, that socialization practices rather than value differences are the significant factors underlying inability of lower class children to conform to middle class standards of behavior.

Recommends dispersal of future low income housing, integration at first grade and following, preparation for changes in school curricula, personnel, and parent education, with September 1971 as target date for achieving balance.

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

Tables for states, based on the 1926 Census of Religion, show more than 400% increase from 1916 to 1926 in Negro Baptist membership in Michigan.