Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology: African Americans in Detroit to 1917 -- African Americansin Detroit and the United States,1918-1927 -- Oscar Lee -- Rosa Lee Kirkman Wheeler -- James E. Cummings -- Helen Nuttall Brown -- Frank Angelo -- Discussion on Employment Opportunities -- Henry Biggs: -- Reginald R. Larrie: -- Paul B. Shirley -- Charles C. Diggs, Jr. -- Frederick N. Cureton -- Ernest Goodman -- Carl Winter -- Alice E. M. Cain Newman -- William Hines -- M. Kelly Fritz -- Sidney Barthwell -- Lillian Duplessis -- Discussion with Second Baptist Church Members -- Arthur Michael Carter III -- Nathaniel Leach -- Wilhelmina Lewis Means -- Katherine E. Reid -- Ernestine E. Wright -- Discussion on Education -- William St. Clair Billups -- Earlie M. Poole -- Shelton Tappes -- African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1928-1937 -- Fred W. Guinyard -- Ernestine E. Wright -- Dorothy Elizabeth Lawson -- Discussion with Shiloh Baptist Church Members -- Mary Ruth Chapman Harris -- Marguerite Rhodes Mclntosh -- O. Davene Ross McKinney -- Dr. Mary O. Brookins Ross -- Discussion on the Labor Movement -- HildredJ. Drew Dale -- Gwendolyn Ruth Edwards -- Hodges E. Mason -- Stanley Nowak -- John J. "Jack" White -- Walter Rosser -- Ruth Wills-Clemons -- Discussion on Green Pastures Camp -- Eleanor Boykin Jones -- Ernest Timothy Marshall -- Cecil Whittaker McFadden -- James Boggs -- Ernest C. Dillard, Sr. -- Richard L. King -- Margaret McCall Thomas Ward -- Edward Davis -- Kermit G. Bailer -- Norman McRae -- Beatrice M. Buck -- African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1938-1947 -- Marcena W. Taylor -- Erma Henderson -- Discussion on Sojourner Truth Homes -- Gerald V. Blakely -- Kenneth G. Booker -- Robert Bynum, Jr. -- Thornton G. Jackson -- Adam Shakoor.

Winston E. Lang -- James T. Jenkins -- Francis A. Kornegay, Ph.D. -- Annie Ruth Cartwright Williams -- Nancy Ann Green Allen -- Discussion on World War II with Tuskegee Airmen -- Ret. Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, U.S.A.F. -- Richard D. Macon -- Herschel L. Richey -- Discussion on Life and Music -- Thomas H. "Dr. Beans" Bowles, Sr. -- Earl F. Van Dyke -- Frances Quock -- Discussion with Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority -- Jerrylee Johnson -- Cecil Whittaker McFadden -- Roberta McGuire Pickett, Ph.D. -- Carol A. Sayers Puryear, Ph.D. -- Rose Marie Dickens Swanson -- Austin W. Curtis, D.S.C. -- Discussion on Civil Rights -- Arthur Michael Carter III -- Ernest Goodman -- Alma Thomas Hall -- Richard V. Marks -- JohnJ. "Jack" White -- Discussion with Sacred Heart Church Members -- Harry Bernard Boglin III -- Mary Ann Humphries -- Emma Jean Johnson -- Anthony E. McCauley, Sr. -- Mary Clarice McCauley Cosey -- Wilfred E. Little -- Roy Brooks -- Wardell C. Croft, FLMI -- Waldo Cain, M.D. -- Discussion on Crime and Law Enforcement -- Mackie C. Johnson -- Winston E. Lang -- Mary Upshaw McClendon -- Frances Quock -- Robert "Bob" L. Cunningham -- African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1948-1957 -- Nina Mack Lester, H.H.D. -- Ofield Dukes -- Lionel F. Swan, M.D. -- David S. Holmes -- Discussion on Life and Music -- Wendell R. Harrison -- Donald Walden -- Discussion on Life in the Brewster Housing Projects -- Gloria Manlove Hunter -- Eleanor manlove -- Mel Ravitz -- Lamar N. Richardson, Jr. -- Discussion on 12th Street Businesses -- Bernard Odell -- Odis Rencher -- Minister William T. Howard -- African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1958-1967 -- Harold Norris -- Marsha L. Mickens -- Leon M. Bradley -- William Lovell Hurt III -- Dave Bing -- Discussion on Virginia Park Community -- Ollie Foster -- Herschel L. Richey -- Walter Rosser.

George Romney -- Roy Wilds -- Gerald Wayne Smith -- Walter L. A. Edwards -- Index -- Backcover.