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Miller, Patrick B. – History of Education Quarterly, 1995
Describes the role and impact of college athletics at historically black colleges during the period between the two world wars. Maintains that sports became a source of pride and a vehicle for social change. Concludes, however, that there is substantial reason to be skeptical about the efficacy of sport to overcome racial prejudice. (CFR)
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black History
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Gordon, William M. – Journal of Negro Education, 1994
Discusses the implementation of desegregation since Brown v Board of Education, focusing on the practical difficulties and promises associated with helping to make desegregation a reality from its beginnings to today's focus on achieving unitary status in formerly segregated school systems. Discussions include issues of freedom of choice, student…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation
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Wilkins, Roger – Teachers College Record, 1995
The "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" decision was a crucial 20th century civil rights event. However, civil rights leaders underestimated the depth of racism and the enormity of the task of getting all black agricultural workers into the mainstream economy. That task, left over from slavery, still faces the American…
Descriptors: Black Students, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Discrimination
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Feagin, Joe R.; Sikes, Melvin P. – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1995
Examines the problem of blacks practicing a self-imposed segregation in colleges and universities. The paper argues that self-segregation appears to be a defense mechanism to insulate black students from the harsh realities of institutional racism. (GR)
Descriptors: Blacks, College Students, Colleges, Coping
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Rivkin, Steven G. – Sociology of Education, 1994
Asserts that school districts' efforts to integrate schools have failed to ameliorate the racial isolation of black students. Finds that schools remain segregated primarily because of continued residential segregation and that school integration efforts have had little long-term effect on residential segregation. (CFR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Civil Rights, De Facto Segregation
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Michel, George J. – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Compares areas and levels of political conflict in racially isolated school districts by surveying six superintendents from racially isolated African-American schools and six superintendents from racially isolated white schools. Similar issues arise at every conflict level with small variations among issues between African-American and white…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Blacks, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
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Banner-Haley, Charles – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1996
Reviews the Henry Louis Gates Jr. memoir, "Colored People," and Julius Lester's novel of the civil rights movement, "And All Our Wounds Forgiven." Discovers a number of salient points concerning the black experience of integration in both books. Considers some of the interesting questions raised and their possible use in class…
Descriptors: Activism, Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black History
Johnson, Donald – 1995
On April 10, 1994, The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University's School of Education sponsored its third conference on the impact of the famous "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" decision. Fourteen discussion groups analyzed the following questions: What was the promise of "Brown," and has that…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Cultural Pluralism
Taeuber, Karl E. – 1988
In the United states, late in the twentieth century, racial separation prevails in family life, playgrounds, churches, and local community activities. Segregation of housing is a key mechanism for maintaining the subordinate status of blacks. Housing policies and practices have been a leading cause of the nation's decaying central cities and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Colonial History (United States), Futures (of Society)
Johnson, Wanda B.; Pearson, Curtis W. D. – 1983
Re-examination of a 16-county area of southern Alabama last studied in 1968 found it still economically depressed, especially for blacks. Black unemployment remains two to three times higher and black poverty rates up to five times higher than those of whites. Blacks are generally employed in the lowest paying jobs. Both black median family income…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
EDWARDS, G. FRANKLIN – 1966
IN CONTRAST WITH THE BASIC SOCIALIZATION PROCESS AND ACCULTURATION OF THE IMMIGRANT, THE NEGRO STILL IS MORALLY AND SOCIALLY ISOLATED FROM SOCIETY. ALTHOUGH CHANGES TOWARD MORE EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO WILL OCCUR, THEY WILL BE DIFFICULT TO BRING ABOUT. THE GHETTO, WHICH ISOLATES THE NEGRO, PERSISTS BECAUSE OF THE VAST PROFITS THAT WHITE REALTORS…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community, Court Litigation, Education
Catholic Committee of the South, New Orleans, LA. Commission on Human Rights. – 1956
This 1956 pamphlet summarizes "scientific facts" about race and race relations from the point of view of the Catholic church and the desegregation of its schools. Discussed are the moral teachings of the Church, the scriptural support for racial equality, and the practicality of desegregation. The document refutes the racist notions about disease,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Biblical Literature, Blacks, Catholic Schools
Noboa, Abdin – Metas, 1980
Summarizes a study on educational conditions for Hispanic children within the context of school desegregation. Reports that continued segregation generates and sustains Hispanic school failure. (ST)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Blacks, Dropout Rate
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Braddock, Jomills Henry II; McPartland, James M. – Journal of Black Studies, 1989
Reviews the previous limited evidence on the perpetuation of racial segregation over stages of the life cycle and across institutions, presents new results from a recent Black youth national cohort, and discusses the results in terms of alternative theories and the need for further research. (BJV)
Descriptors: Biographies, Black Youth, Blacks, Desegregation Effects
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Sefa Dei, George J. – McGill Journal of Education, 1995
Argues for the establishment of "African-centered" schools on an experimental basis, in direct consultation and partnership with students, educators, administrators, and the local community. Maintains that most mainstream public schools reinforce concepts and values of the dominant culture and alienate students of color. (MJP)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Community Characteristics, Cultural Pluralism
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