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Direct linkSoares, Leigh – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
This paper examines the emergence of black progressive organizations and their relationship to public black colleges. Amid violent disfranchisement in the early 1900s, black education activists collaborated with other educators to host conferences, develop programs, and mobilize delegations on broader issues of concern to black Americans,…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Black Colleges, Educational History, African Americans
Download full textGill, Wanda E. – Online Submission, 2013
The 2013 Black History Month Programs at the U.S. Department of Education highlighted and celebrated emancipation, Civil Rights, the histories of key Black organizations and the contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities through a series of programs offered both in Barnard Auditorium at headquarters on Maryland Avenue, S.W,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Partnerships in Education, African American History, Black Colleges
Peer reviewedDotson, Betty Lou – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1983
Describes the objectives and activities of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the purview of the Reagan administration's civil rights policy. Describes OCR methodologies designed to ensure enforcement of nondiscrimination requirements in state implementation of programs under federal block grants. (MJL)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Block Grants, Civil Rights, Federal Aid
Reynolds, William Bradford – 1983
Issues pertaining to desegregation of public higher education are discussed by the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Justice. Reynolds states that forced busing is probably not the best means of desegregating a public school system and that he is unpersuaded that society is reaching the ideal of colorblindness…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Civil Rights, College Desegregation, Compliance (Legal)
PDF pending restorationFairfax, Jean – 1991
This publication contains a speech on the continuing struggle for equity in education for African Americans presented to the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) by Jean Fairfax when she received the John A. Griffin Award for Advancing Equity in Education. In the speech, Fairfax addressed disagreements within the black community over educational…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education
Exum, William H. – 1980
The meaning, operation, and impact of institutional racism in higher education are examined with attention to both past and present conditions. Institutional racism is examined with reference to several specific issues: barriers to the entry of blacks, as both students and staff, into American higher education; curriculum and academic programs;…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education
