Among the many women's groups and female-dominated professions, nursing has been one of the premiere political forces. Nurses organized the first major professional organization for women, edited and published the first professional magazine by women, and were the first major professional group to integrate black members and white members. (Author)

Explores the racialized discourses surrounding basic writing students by using the notion of education as "white property." Shows how students are racialized as "minorities" despite the significant numbers of whites in the program. Argues open-admissions students are discursively coded as non-white. Contends that racialization…

This study explored the state of desegregation and integration in South African schools 11 years after the demise of Apartheid. Three classrooms in three desegregating schools with different histories and race profiles were visited. Overall, each classroom was visited on 10 occasions over a period of 2 weeks. Direct observation was the main data…

The relative effects of integrated and segregated schooling on racial attitudes were studied in a comparison of 112 five-and six-year-old children attending all-Black, all-White, and integrated schools. (Author)

This bibliography cites over 60 references covering history, children, the Black woman, the American and world scenes, ethnic groups (including Spanish Americans and American Indians), teachers, compensatory education, Afro-American studies, colleges, law and government, school and work, community, and general issues. (EB)

Presents a set of principles which link the housing and school integration fields in achieving racial diversity. Offers suggestions for opportunities for consultation and cooperation between school district and municipal officials and planners and desegregation advocates. Suggests that coordinated strategies are necessary. (SA)

"Iggie's House" by Judy Blume is the story of one week in the life of an eleven-year-old White girl when a Black family moves into her middle-class neighborhood. Presented are lesson plans and learning activities for using the novel in social studies courses for intermediate or junior high school students. (RM)

Examines how race, separatist ideology, and interracial contact affect career commitment within an integrated organization, the U.S. Army. Findings suggest that when individual behavioral preferences regarding race conflict with an institutional policy of integration, commitment is lessened. (Author/RM)

Describes efforts of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws (CCEAD), led by Mary Church Terrell, to abolish segregation in public eating places and other businesses in the nation's capital in the early 1950s. (GC)

Explored contemporary fiction presented in racially integrated settings and examined the treatment of problem-solving skills among children and adolescent protagonists (n=76) in 72 novels. Compared usage of problem-solving skills between Black protagonists and White protagonists. Found White protagonists demonstrated significantly more ideation…

Discusses how as states push historically black public colleges to do more to recruit white students, colleges seek effective strategies and some educators see a double standard. (EV)

Recounts starting a Montessori school in the 1960s in New Orleans. Highlights events of import: (1) decision to be nonsectarian and racially integrated; (2) early conflict between teachers and parents on Montessori practices; and (3) physical location problems. (DLH)

The rapid growth of magnet schools in the 1980s introduced the first widely adopted form of public school choice in the United States. Magnet-based choice is supported as a way to expand school choice for parents, bring innovation through specialty schools and programs, and promote voluntary forms of racial integration. Some contend that this form…

The barriers to educational integration in one Mississippi Delta town are identified. Although de facto segregation among students exist throughout the country, in Mississippi Delta many white students attend private academies that do not offer greater educational opportunity than the predominantly Black public schools.

Community building has been a key concern for a wide array of educational projects. Recently, educational theories concerned about social justice have begun to challenge assumptions about community in U.S. education by criticizing its tendencies toward assimilation and homogeneity. Such theories point out that a communitarian agenda excludes the…