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Peer reviewedJones, Beverly – Phylon, 1982
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)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Demonstrations (Civil)
Peer reviewedColby, Ira C. – Phylon, 1985
Describes the philosophical and political underpinnings of the Freedmen's Bureau, a Federal agency created after the Civil War to assist and protect freed Southern slaves. Argues that, despite some positive results, it exemplified the nation's ambivalence toward a free black community and only contributed to the further entrenchment of racial…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Civil Rights, Federal Programs
