Condensed from "The Urban Review, a publication of the Center for Urban Education, New York City, Volume 3 (November 1968), 7-9.

In this essay, application of the equal-status contact hypothesis to the policy of integrated housing is reassessed by reviewing the findings from two studies of interracial public housing. Assessment of the relative level of interracial intimacy in the integrated projects is hindered by measures lacking in clarity and comprehensiveness, but the…

The relative effects of integrated and segregated schooling on racial attitudes were studied in a comparison of 112 five-and six-year-old children attending all-Black, all-White, and integrated schools. (Author)

"Iggie's House" by Judy Blume is the story of one week in the life of an eleven-year-old White girl when a Black family moves into her middle-class neighborhood. Presented are lesson plans and learning activities for using the novel in social studies courses for intermediate or junior high school students. (RM)

This paper presents a case study of a major educational innovation introduced into a school at the time of pupil desegregation. It was found that the innovation was essentially a rite of intensification whereby Whites and Blacks established new interaction patterns within a unitary school system by reinforcing the customary relationships between…

Traces the efforts by Negroes, especially through the Pittsburgh "Courier," to gain integration in the Armed Forces, starting in 1938. (RB)

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAPERBACK BOOKS ON THE NEGRO AMERICAN LISTS FICTION, SOCIAL HISTORIES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES SUITABLE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. EACH ENTRY IS LABELED APPROPRIATE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, OR BOTH. THE ADDRESSES OF THE PUBLISHERS OF THESE WORKS ARE ALSO INDICATED.…

Introduces special issue (with same title) designed to demonstrate how Blacks and whites, as allies, used 'tongue, pen, and participation' (social, political, religious, economic, judicial) to protest conditions such as discrimination, inequality, and segregation. Also gives broad overview of Black involvement in the antislavery movement. (CMG)

Education for liberation of Africans and African-Americans is a continuous process of uncovering that environment which denies natural growth and development, and of discovering new sets of knowledge and reinterpreting old sets to accelerate renaming the world. (Author)

Uses data drawn from a longitudinal study to examine the several viewpoints from which the degree of success (as measured by absorption and integration) a minority group family will have after deciding to leave an agricultural or migrant economy may be considered. (Author/JM)

The author's case, made for affirmative action, is correctly aimed, but it lacks the full, disciplined forethought that is both necessary and expected. (Author)

Notes that although the concept of integration, decentralization and community control have particular contemporary meanings acquired through recent court decisions and urban controversies, these same concepts were meaningful and important to blacks in Brooklyn almost 100 years ago. (Author/AM)