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A GROUP of University foreign students spent a
weekend in Detroit's Negro community last
month. They found it "interesting," even "inspir-
ing": "the type of thing every student ought to have
the opportunity to do."
The 21 from foreign countries and two from the
United States were the guests of the Second Baptist
Church, which was observing its 122nd anniversary.
A second Negro church, Christ Baptist, also located
families for the students to live with and invited
them to its service.
During an afternoon the students toured Negro
businesses in metropolitan Detroit, traveling in
buses loaned for the occasion by a white church.
They visited a radio station, a newspaper, two fu-
neral homes and a housing project.

THE STUDENTS ate dinner and spent the night
in the homes to which they had been assigned.
They noted a certain "American" quality of frank-
ness and generosity which they were surprised to
find predominate over feelings of being members
of a minority.
The students attended church with' the host
families, including Bible classes and services. Some
found the service quite like other Protestant services
they had seen, others noted an "emotionalism" in
the service which they said they liked.
After church the students and their hosts ate
dinner together at a large Chinese resaurant, fol-
lowing which the bus returned to Ann Arbor. But
according to many, the effect of the weekend was
much more lasting. -Thomas Turner

BRITISHER MEETS AMERICAN--Graduate stu-
dent David Bunker met this young Detroiter outside
the Second Baptist Church.

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COFFEE TOGETHER-University student Mrs. Tamako Tobe
chats with the director of Christian Education of the Second Bap-
tist Church. The students commented afterward they felt their
hosts had a certain "American" attitude which they liked.

CHRONICLE PUBLISHER-In the offices of the
Negro newspaper the international students had the
paper's operations explained by the publisher.

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HOST MINISTER-Rev. A. A.
Banks, Jr., of Second Baptist
Church was observing his 11th
anniversary at the church con-
currently with the church's
122nd anniversary.

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eaving the development the group

FREE NEWSPAPERS-Visiting the offices of the weekly newspaper, The Chronicle,
the students were given copies of the paper. They also visited radio station WCHB,
which is owned by two dentists.