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The article presents the diary of a Southerner Negro mother, who has migrated to Northern Region with her six children. She puts in her experience as, "I AM A Negro mother of six who last month moved, her family from Los Angeles to the Deep South to live. The community we chose was Tuskegee, Alabama, which was the one indication to my friends and relatives that, in contemplating such a move, I was still sane." Tuskegee is the town which many people think had its origin in the establishment in 1881 by the late, great Negro ex-slave and leader, Booker T. Washington, of one of the first schools for the freedmen, Tuskegee Institute.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Cities of the '60s," in the March 23, 1962 issue, "Melting the Pot," in the March 23, 1962 issue, and "Standards for Noah's Ark?," in the March 16, 1962 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one regarding the Selma-Montgomery march participant Jonathan Daniels in the August 27, 1965 issue, "Space" in the August 27, 1965 issue, and one regarding the obituary of Air Line Pilots Association's former president Clarence N. Sayen in the August 27, 1965 issue.

The article presents an excerpt from "In the Faraway Country of Montgomery, Alabama," a short story which appeared in the September 1968 issue of Harper's Magazine.