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Mason, Ernest D. – Phylon, 1979
Alain Locke's thinking on race and race relations is not always clearly understood. His interest in race stemmed primarily from his attempt to combat notions of national, racial, and cultural superiority. As excerpts from his works show, Locke's position is more appropriately described as culturally pluralistic, rather than integrationist.…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Racial Attitudes, Racial Integration, Racial Relations
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Dewing, Rolland – Phylon, 1969
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Racial Discrimination, Racial Integration, Racial Segregation
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Jones, 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)
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Turner, William H. – Phylon, 1983
Reviews the coming of Blacks to Appalachia and the general character of their social and cultural development in the region. Focuses on the retreat from biracial education and biracial unionism in the early 1900s and how these failures affected the present status of Appalachian Blacks as some of America's poorest people. (CMG)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black History, Economically Disadvantaged, Higher Education
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Hein, Virginia H. – Phylon, 1972
Throughout the 1960's, when racial strife was rampant throughout the nation, Atlanta's shining image was, to a large degree, the result of a black majority too busy to hate." (Author/RJ)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Classroom Desegregation, Racial Integration
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Piliawsky, Monte – Phylon, 1984
Surveys past two decades of struggle for Black civil rights in the U.S., measuring progress in the areas of political equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity, economic equality, and social equality. Concludes that Black people in 1983 remain as oppressed as 20 years ago. (RDN)
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Jacobson, Cardell K. – Phylon, 1983
Data collected by the Louis Harris polling organization in 1978 concerning Black attitudes toward affirmative action programs were analyzed. It was found that Blacks who are optimistic and do not feel powerless generally support these programs. Whites who were also polled felt ambivalent toward them. (CJM)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Attitudes, Black Leadership, Blacks
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Hefner, James A.; Kidder, Alice E. – Phylon, 1972
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Training
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Brown, John A. – Phylon, 1979
Suggests some reasons for the present state of inactiveness in Black protest associations by focusing on the associational behavior shown by Blacks and contrasting it with behavior shown by other ethnic groups in their voluntary associations. (EB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Attitudes, Black Organizations, Black Power
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Saltman, Juliet Z. – Phylon, 1971
A survey of receptivity toward five different aspects of integration and presence of prejudice was made among students in four different classes in a municipal university, parents of the students, and friends of parents of the students. (JM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Background, Fear, Neighborhood Integration
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Krystall, Eric R.; And Others – Phylon, 1970
Analyzes the responses of 266 black high school seniors and 240 of their mothers to questions asked(during the 1967 Tuskegee Area Study) regarding integration and black consciousness. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Mothers, Black Students, High School Students
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Abbott, Carl – Phylon, 1978
Problems of cultural incompatibility among Colorado's ethnic groups have not been resolved by official gestures in the direction of racial harmony; nor have economic gains meant social integration for these groups. Anglos still hold the dominant position they gained in the nineteenth century. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Mexican Americans
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Paul, Joan; And Others – Phylon, 1984
Tracks the racial integration of Southeastern Conference (SEC) teams from the late 1950s on. Includes tables showing: date of integration, by school and sport; numbers of Blacks on SEC teams, 1967-80; percentage of Blacks on SEC football teams (1967-79), basketball teams, track and field teams, all sport teams (1967-80), and baseball teams…
Descriptors: Athletes, Baseball, Basketball, Black Students
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Spivey, Donald – Phylon, 1983
Sees the scholarly community's failure to look seriously at the history of Blacks in intercollegiate sports as a missed opportunity to understand an important dimension of Afro-American intellectual history, the nature and development of the modern civil rights struggle, and the Black protest movement. (Author/CMG)
Descriptors: Activism, Athletes, Athletics, Black Achievement
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Weaver, Bill; Page, Oscar C. – Phylon, 1982
Describes early court cases and decisions that influenced the struggle to end desegregation in higher education and analyzes the reaction in the Black press to the breakthroughs accomplished in those cases. Credits the press with correctly interpreting events that led to integrated graduate and professional education. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Court Litigation, Equal Education