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Bullard, Sara – Teaching Tolerance, 1993
Interviews Marian Wright Edelman about her work with the Children's Defense Fund and her book "The Measure of Our Success." The importance of having a sense that the world can be better is emphasized. Children must be given a voice and a way to participate in solving society's problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Blacks, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare
Haskins, James – 1992
This biography for young readers recounts in 10 chapters, the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and focuses on his life as a civil rights litigator who played a key role in the integration of education in the United States. Marshall's family history; boyhood and schooling in Baltimore (Maryland) and New York City; decision to attend…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Biographies, Black Community, Blacks
Morton, Shirley T. – 1991
This overview of the history of lifelong learning for African Americans is in a chart format. Lifelong learning events are matched with social and historical events and with black adult educators and black adult education-related institutions. The chart begins with slavery around 1800, a time when slaves were forbidden to learn how to read. It…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black History
Rabin, Yale – 1987
The barriers of housing segregation have been reinforced for blacks living in central-city ghettos by the process of metropolitan decentralization, which has moved most whites beyond social contact, and most employment beyond reach of available public transportation. Despite gains in the number of blacks who found housing in the suburbs in the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Decentralization, Demography, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Gordon, Edmund W.; Green, Robert L. – 1966
This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences. One conference was concerned primarily with research on racial desegregation and integration in public education, and was highlighted by a paper by Irwin Katz, "Problems and Directions for Research in Public School Desegregation." The second conference focused on social change and the role…
Descriptors: Action Research, Behavioral Sciences, Blacks, Civil Rights
Carle, Wayne M. – 1977
Fifty researchable questions are framed in terms of nine broad problems suggested for social science research. The problems are: How much movement will be needed to attain and maintain integrated schools in the metropolitan centers? What roles should state and federal agencies play in school desegregation? How should the organization, control and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Television, Equal Education

Brook, Diane L.; And Others – Social Education, 1995
Reports on a study of 36 U.S. teachers and 114 teachers, administrators, and students in South Africa on their knowledge and opinions of each other's culture. Finds a low level of knowledge among U.S. teachers. Discovers that neither U.S. nor South African teachers include teaching about the South African elections in their curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Blacks, Civil Liberties, Course Content
Alexander, Neville – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
Although this author knew very little about the details of "Brown v. Board of Education" as a legal matter when he read about it as a young second-year student at the University of Cape Town in 1954, the Court's verdict had a direct influence on his political perspectives and on his aspirations as a would-be teacher for the rest of his…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Racial Discrimination
Orfield, Gary; And Others – 1993
This study shows where school segregation is concentrated and where schools remain highly integrated. It offers the first national comparison of segregation by community size and reveals that segregation remains high in big cities and serious in mid-size central cities. Many African-American and Latino students also attend segregated schools in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Farley, Reynolds; Allen, Walter R. – 1987
This book is about race and the differences race makes in the lives of Americans. Its mission is to convert 1980 census data into authoritative analyses of major changes and trends in American life. It includes the following chapters: (1) "Race in America: The Dilemma Continues"; (2) "Black Population Growth from Colonial Times to…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
COHEN, DAVID K. – 1967
IN CHOOSING BETWEEN SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND SEGREGATED COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, POLICY MAKERS MUST CONSIDER THE CAUSES OF THE EDUCATIONAL RETARDATION OF NEGRO YOUTH AND THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND FISCAL COSTS OF EACH POLICY. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN SOCIAL CLASS AND THE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF THE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN "CULTURAL DEPRIVATION"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Teachers, Blacks, Compensatory Education
ORR, JOHN B.; PULSIPHER, LYDIA – 1967
THE PRODUCT OF A CONFERENCE WHICH CONCENTRATED ON THE ISSUES OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT, THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME DEAL WITH (1) THE SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) RACIAL ISOLATION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (3) THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN AND NEGRO AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, (4) SOCIAL DEVIANCE…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Compensatory Education, Cultural Context
Muller, Peter O. – 1975
Interrelated forces which have shaped the distribution of population in metropolitan areas, and the social geography of the suburbs in particular, are described in this work. Contemporary patterns and problems concerning the organization of social space in the outer city are reviewed. Suburbia's residential spatial structure is examined in terms…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Demography, Employment Patterns
Arnez, Nancy L. – Urban League News, 1976
Historically, the education of some slaves established a middle class within the black population. By the beginning of the 19th century many ex-slaves were able to establish their own business enterprises, using the skills learned. This skilled group became the proponents of freedom for their people and participated in the establishment of schools…
Descriptors: American History, Black Culture, Black Education, Black History
Dunston, Aingred Ghislayne – 1989
Scholars know the history of oppression. They know that struggles against oppression do not evolve in a vacuum. They may suspect that where discrimination exists, revolt is only an inch below the surface. What many may not realize is that the African-American fought against bigotry, racism, vigilante injustice, brutal violence, lynching, terror,…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Influences, Black Organizations, Blacks