Discusses Bijlmermeer, a suburb of Amsterdam, where the complex problems of integrating native Dutch citizens with immigrant Dutch citizens exist in large measure, and problems of integrated education are present: there has been a great influx of natives from Surinam to Holland, since the date for the complete independence of Surinam was set for…

After briefly reviewing the formation of current Department of Health, Education and Welfare policy, discusses Florida's desegregation status, activities of HEW's Office of Civil Rights, the formulation and progress of the Florida desegregation plan, the projected role of Florida A. and M., and, the problem of maintaining Black enrollment. (JM)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, by the executive director of the Housing Opportunities Council for Metropolitan Washington, emphasizes that if the federal government took an active role in dealing with equal housing opportunity, it could do much to attain it. (Author/JM)

Discusses (1) idealogical and administrative factors at the federal level which weakened the implementation of multiculturalism in Canada on a national basis; and (2) Prime Minister Trudeau's failure to encourage second language learning in provincial schools and other areas where educational opportunities are lacking for minority ethnic groups.…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, by the director of the Open Housing Center of the New York Urban League, notes that the federal government, the City of New York and the State of New York, in both the Division of Human Rights and the Licensing Bureau of the Secretary of State's…

Discusses the antecedents of the innovations of the sixties in Indian education -cross-cultural and bilingual education and vocational training for reservation living - in the innovations in the thirties, during the Indian New Deal, noting that the reason the innovations of the thirties were short-lived was that they had never really belonged to…

Argues that just as the Justice Department of the Democratic Administration of the 60's deserves credit for progress, it must share responsibility for failure, and that in the Nixon Administration, the decision obviously was that certain forms of racism are good politics. (Author/JM)

Discusses developments on both a national and state-by-state basis, including Supreme Court litigation, recent federal legislation, federal agency regulations, employment opportunities, urban migration patterns, affirmative action suits, the status of Mexican American students at the University of California, integration plans, and others. (JM)

Disputes the belief that there is some way to motivate people who are culturally different to become like whites: if Indian legal rights are protected only to the extent that the Indians conform to white society, then one is not talking about legal rights at all. (Author/JM)

Examines the historical role of the Federal government in social programs and discusses implications of the "New Federalism" for minority groups and the economically disadvantaged. Holds that strong Federal participation is necessary if equality is to be achieved in the United States. (Author/GC)