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T HIS is not ordinary law review fare. A law professor's bread, even if only half baked, conventionally can be expected at least to emit pungent legal odors. Pursued further, the simile would perhaps prove dangerous. The point is merely that legal doctrine is here only incidentally involved. The principal purpose of this piece is rather to describe the status, problems and influence of all Negroes involved in whatever capacity in a series of jury trials occurring in a single United States district court over a period of one and one-half years. The district in question is located in a highly industrialized Northern state, and the trials were held in three different cities.