Willie L. McKether, associate director of Wayne State\'s Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, just completed a 500-page-plus work on Saginaw\'s large influx of black residents during the auto industry\'s heyday. \"People may believe that African-Americans had better experiences after they left the South, but I didn\'t realize the depth of racism that existed here \"people not able to eat at downtown restaurants, the limited economic opportunities outside of General Motors,\" McKether said. After five years of research, McKether is ready to share his findings with the public, either for purchase or for review at Saginaw\'s Hoyt Main Library.