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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.

Using fictitious names, describes an actual episode, the closing of an automobile paint factory on Detroit's westside in 1967. Presents case histories of several involved blacks, included a UAW international representative.

Reminiscences of an ex-slave who came to Michigan in 1872 and settled near Reed City in Osceola County. A Clarke Historical Library [Central Michigan University] Facsimile Reprint.

Reports increasing racial segregation in Detroit area, increasing segregation in clubs and organizations, and consequent decreasing community cohesiveness.

Finds "support for Detroit area schools varies with distribution of social characteristics over urban space." Report no. 2557; ERIC Document ED026706

Relates employment ratios of inner city workers in nearly six hundred census tracts to available bus transportation to those areas.

Summarizes answers to interviews of 1,448 Model Neighborhood families concerning their "most important problems."

Describes intercultural education programs and allied student committee and campus projects. Except from Cook, Lloyd A., ed. College Study in Intergroup Relations.

Invites "trade unionists, veterans, church congregations, housewives, all patroitic people" to the rally."

Summarizes much of data used in author's thesis. Estimates at least 40% of Negro families in Detroit are from Georgia or Alabama. Gives 1893 as date of appointment of first black policeman, 1921, first black policewoman.