During the past ten years, subtle White northern liberal racism, White backlash, and Black separatism have seriously threatened the gains of the civil rights movement that were triggered by the "Brown" decision. Fortunately, this negative tide is now being reversed. (Author/IRT)

Suggests that the purposes of self-centered parochial (including educational) institutions be examined and that they be considered as structures designed to help human beings escape the shackles of their own constricted egos. [Available from JCSI, 119 West 24th Street, New York, New York 10011]. (Author/AM)

Suggests that the most critical issue at this stage of the American civil rights crisis is the northern public school system's consistent practice of ignoring or sabotaging methods for increasing the academic achievement of black children and youth, while giving the impression of concern to end racism. (Author/SF)

The text of an address to the National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks, held in Arlington, Virginia, March 29-April 1, 1972. (JM)

Education will become the functioning instrument of a stable democracy by being in all its stages and dimensions an example of the democratic process. Within this framework, the desegregation of our schools can proceed; and with the desegregation of our schools, we can achieve that more difficult stage--the true integration of our schools. The…