Procedures used at the University of Maryland for providing statistics on racial composition. (HS)

Differences were examined among 285 black secondary students who were: not changing schools; changing to schools with a black majority; changing to a racially balanced school. Results indicated a racially balanced school had no effect on social insight. Introverts were higher on the withdrawal scale and lower on the cooperation scale. (JC)

Presents the emotion-packed stories of Adriena Valerie Sims and Oscar Green, the first black students to be admitted to the University of Georgia and Rutgers University. (HS)

To meet the needs of young black students in integrated junior high schools, adult black human relations specialists were systematically selected and trained and assigned within the school system. They functioned above levels determined to be minimally effective and were generally highly rated by students, principals and administrative staff,…

Ranks the 26 leading U.S. universities according to their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and graduating African American students as well as their progress in bringing black professors to their campuses. Universities are ranked according to a blending of 13 widely accepted quantitative measures of institutional racial integration. Duke…

Discusses desegregation of parochial schools, examining the Roman Catholic Church's struggle to reconcile its moral imperative to desegregate its parochial schools with temporal pressures to resist, as documented in the archives of the Catholic Council of Human Relations in New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the largest number of African American…

Twenty documents discussing the beneficial effects of school desegregation, particularly on black children, and thirteen studies finding desegregation harmful are cited and their major findings and research methods described briefly in this document. Essentially an annotated bibliography, the report concludes by summarizing briefly the results of…

School desegregation has been a success in the South and a failure nationwide. Gambling major resources on integration will not pay off, but teaching children how to read in place" might. (Author/MF)

Ranks leading liberal arts colleges in the United States according to their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and graduating African American students, also noting their progress in bringing African American professors to their campuses. The colleges are graded according to a blending of 13 widely accepted quantitative measures of…

Explores one southern community's response to the 1954 Brown decision, its subsequent handling of school desegregation, and events immediately following the decision, which provide a context for the 1980s decision to consolidate the community's middle school students to reduce perceptions of race-based inequality. Analyzes the current status of…

Presents the story of Charles Hamilton Houston, an African American legal scholar who led a crusade focused on equal educational opportunities and facilities for African American students. He used the courts to force Americans to listen to his message about racial subjugation, segregation, and lynch law. (SM)

The two studies reviewed attest to the distance southern educational history has traveled since the legal underpinnings of "separate but equal"809 schooling were demolished in 1954. Careful study of the learning atmosphere prior to desegregation should yield insights useful in today's schools. (SLD)