In preparing its second brief in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the NAACP relied heavily on the knowledge and research skills of many scholars who had pursued graduate studies with awards from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which was devoted to the advancement of African Americans and improvement in race relations. The fellowship program also…

THE SIX TABLES IN THIS PRELIMINARY REPORT WERE DERIVED FROM DATA IN A RACIAL AND ETHNIC CENSUS CONDUCTED BY THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. TABLES 1 AND 2 CONTAIN DATA ON THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF WHITE, NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN, AND "OTHER" PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE. TABLES 3 THROUGH 6 PRESENT…

The Southern Regional Council interviewed students in four widely diverse Southern communities, in July of 1970, about their experiences in desegregated schools. The survey objective was to find answers to such urgent questions posed by integration as: whether the students were just a bitter vocal minority, or whether they represented a new wave…

As a statistical tabulation based on raw data collected by the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, this report presents tables of data which illustrate trends in black school segregation from 1970-1974. The statistics provide a detailed profile of the pattern of black enrollment in schools with various…

Some memories are presented of black principals at Booker T. Washington High School, Columbia, the first public high school for blacks in South Carolina. Former students recall some of the quotations and sayings these principals used to inspire students. Booker T. Washington High School, which operated from 1916 to 1970 as a segregated public…

Summarizes a study which attempted to determine if black children manifested higher racial pride in a racially mixed environment and whether the type of racial mixing made any difference, using a modified doll test. (Author/JM)

Revision of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11, 1968. Analysis of self-concept measures on segregated Black and white subjects of high school and college age reveals no significant differences when social status is controlled for. (JM)

Examined the relationship between segregated education and school outcomes for African American students in a school district regarded as a model of successful desegregated public schooling. Surveys indicated that many of the schools remained segregated at the building level. All secondary core academic classes were tracked and racially…

The relationship between the existence of integrated and de facto segregated public schools and the racial attitudes of White students toward African Americans was studied by comparing the attitudes of white college freshman from racially integrated or de facto segregated public high schools. The Multifactor Racial Attitude Inventory (MRAI),…

The creation of a separate and unequal system of education for blacks and whites in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and black responses to the situation are described and analyzed in this book. Drawing upon material from black newspapers and journals, Chicago Board of Education documents, census data, private manuscript collections, and personal…

This paper reviews school desegregation issues since the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley case. The Milliken decision ruled that crossing of school district lines for desegregation was not permissible. Dissenters from this ruling predicted that the effects of the decision would be an acceleration of the national trend toward residential, political and…

IN THIS ARTICLE THE ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARD THEIR EXPERIENCES IN GHETTO SCHOOLS ARE SET FORTH, AND THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL SEGREGATION ARE CATALOGED. THE RACISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THE EFFECTS OF SUMMER RIOTS ON EDUCATION ARE ALSO BRIEFLY DISCUSSED. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN "EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP," VOLUME 25,…

Reassessment of reportedly important aspects of the school desegregation problem that have arisen since the "Brown decision" of 1954. (RJ)

Examines the relationship between school segregation and minority suburbanization on enrollments during the years 1987-1995. Uses data from the school-level enrollment counts from the Common Core of Data (CCD) sets. Reports that increased suburban segregation corresponds to the increase in suburban enrollment shares in black, Hispanic, and Asian…