This review comments on the recent class action suits in Michigan related to affirmative action and college admission. It reviews related cases and the legal basis for the Supreme Court decisions that are expected to have widespread effects. Affirmative action plans exist at all levels of government and business, and a broad ruling invalidating…

This advance report highlights the findings of surveys taken in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as part of the National Crime Panel, a new instrument for measuring levels of crime both nationwide and in selected large cities. Conducted for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the…

Research in 37 neighborhoods in Flint, Michigan, investigated the association between the extent of racial integration in a neighborhood and residents' satisfaction with, awareness of, and attitudes toward various aspects of neighborhood and community life. The influence of demographic factors was also examined. The degree of neighborhood…

In 1966, the Michigan State Board of Education and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission adopted a Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Education Opportunity. As part of this policy statement's implementation, the State Board of Education requested a school racial census, which was taken in the spring of 1967. Data collected on the racial…

The report assesses residential segregation of Asians, Blacks, and Native Americans, and the relationship between their SES and the degree of minority suburbanization. The following results were found: (1) SES and education level are related to residential segregation; (2) as suburbanization increases, segregation decreases; and (3) differences in…

The Michigan Department of Education conducted a school racial census in the fall of 1968. Information was obtained about the racial composition of student bodies and staff by school buildings in both public and nonpublic schools. The 1968-69 school racial census was based on questionnaires returned from 4,538 individual schools which employed…

As a result of the State Board of Education and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission's Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Educational Opportunity, a school racial-ethnic census of Michigan public schools was initiated. The purposes of this census were to: (1) assist in the attainment of equality of educational opportunity without discrimination…

This study compares information about the attitudes of black children in a predominantly black urban community with that from a previous study on Mississippi and Michigan children in which no difference in race attitudes and no relationship between racial attitudes and self-concept were found. The report studies a sample of four- and five-year-old…

As part of the implementation of the Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Educational Opportunity, Michigan's State Board of Education conducted its first public school racial census in the spring of 1967. Information was collected about the racial composition of: (1) student bodies and staff by school building and (2) central office staffs of…

There has been great interest in disparities in revenues and expenditures of school districts based upon the school district's educational background, median family income, and racial makeup. Accordingly, this study correlates each school districts' expenditures, various supports, and revenues with the district's educational background, median…

This report provides data concerning the racial/ethnic composition of Michigan's elementary and secondary public school students and staff. The data on students were obtained by asking teachers to estimate the racial/ethnic compositions of their classrooms, utilizing the categories American Indian, black, Asian American, Latino, and white.…