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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.

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"

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

Solicits money for purchase and equipping of the van.

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.

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.

pg. 17-20: Michigan.

Through pictures, officers' and committee reports, shows progress of a black business development program organized in late 1967.

Describes Southwest Development Project and the conditions it aims to correct.

Includes physical and social data.