Formal and Informal Integration Thesis? Useful or no?

As I have finished reading a 1965 thesis entitled, “The Level of Formal and Informal Integration of Negroes in Lansing, Michigan,” I found out lots of interesting information about the population that Lansing consisted of around the time of the construction of I-496. Although this thesis had a focus on the integration of blacks in both the internal and external community of Lansing at the time, little information seemed to be overly significant to our project. Most of the information was related to age, education level, occupation of informants and their families etc. as well as investigated the relationships blacks had with whites, in the areas of jobs, church affiliation and union affiliation. There was no mention of the construction of I-496 or how these people were affected by it, or how means of integration were changed. The only thing that I found to stick out was a table representing how many residents owned/rented their homes. This could possibly give us an idea how many people actually owned their homes and possibly got paid to move. Even so I do not think this is overly relevant either. I will have to see what we narrow our investigation questions down to, to see if we have a major focus on formal and informal integration to see if this thesis is at all useful for us to use.