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Peer reviewedHershman, James H., Jr. – Journal of Negro Education, 1983
Describes the difficulties encountered by Virginia localities in marketing their school bonds in years immediately following the "Brown" decision (1954-1959). (GC)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedPhilipsen, Maike – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Focuses on the academic decision making of several female African Americans in a rural southern (primarily African-American) town by considering their personal school experiences and their interpretations of the value of education in their community contexts. Preliminary findings show many contradictions between educational beliefs and actual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Black Attitudes, Blacks
Peer reviewedBlount, Jackie – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Explains how land conditions and local land ownership patterns have contributed to the educational change that left a rural, primarily African-American town in North Carolina without its own school. The town's history, largely interpreted by one elderly African-American man, shows how economic structures have evolved over the past century. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black History, Blacks, Community Attitudes
