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Kantor, Harvey; Brenzel, Barbara – Teachers College Record, 1992
Postwar transformation of U.S. cities gave new form to longstanding racial and economic educational inequities, intensifying barriers to achievement facing disadvantaged students. By concentrating disadvantaged students in inferior innercity schools, educational problems are intensified. Bureaucratic school systems do little to address new…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Ruderman, Jim; Fauver, Bill – 1991
This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. This unit focuses on the black experience in the critical years after Reconstruction. Using the landmark decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the unit opens with an examination of conditions in black America…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Court Litigation, Grade 10
Denton, Virginia Lantz – 1993
Born into slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington overcame staggering obstacles to lead emancipated blacks into a quiet revolution against illiteracy and economic dependence. In his lifetime, the national focus became more democratic, and the education of adults proliferated, bringing social change. The first public efforts to educate freed slaves…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Black Achievement, Black History
Skjervold, Christian K.; And Others – 1975
The student booklet presents short chapters illustrating the prejudice/discrimination unit of the Minneapolis Multi-Ethnic Curriculum Project for secondary schools. Fifteen brief chapters describe the ways Americans have and still do discriminate against the people of various ethnic groups. Topics cover the history and policies of the Know-Nothing…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bias, Blacks, Chinese Americans
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1979
In this review, historical events are used to depict those aspects of American and especially black history which preceded the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Slavery, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement are discussed. Efforts to achieve equal educational opportunity are described and an overview of school desegregation and other…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black History, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation
Chicago Urban League, IL. Dept. of Research. – 1982
In this report, the Chicago Urban League assesses the Chicago Board of Education's proposed school desegregation plan. The report discusses eleven points of disagreement with plan provisions. The issues raised include: (1) the absence of concrete provisions, especially numerical standards, to ensure that existing black-white separation in Chicago…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Attitudes, Demography
Noboa, Abdin – 1980
An analysis and interpretation of a five-volume study by Aspira, Inc., which examined Hispanic segregation in U.S. schools, presents an overview of the study, general findings, and a summary and conclusions, including recommendations for further study and analysis and general policy recommendations. Segregation trends for Hispanics are discussed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
HENDERSON, VIVIAN W. – 1966
THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO ARE THE MOST DEPRESSED SEGMENTS OF THE ECONOMY AND THE POPULATION, AND IMPORTANTLY, THE EXTENT TO WHICH NEGROES ARE ABSORBED INTO THE ECONOMY WILL DETERMINE THE PACE WITH WHICH THE SOUTH REACHES PARITY OF INCOME LEVEL WITH THE REST OF THE NATION. IN COMPARISON WITH WHITES, NEGROES HAVE GAINED ONLY SLIGHTLY IN INCOME AND…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status
JACKSON, LUTHER P. – 1966
ONE OF A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS DERIVED FROM THE CHILD REARING STUDY (CRS) OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN WASHINGTON, D.C., THIS PAMPHLET ATTEMPTS TO REFUTE THE POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE POOR. CRS FINDINGS SHOW THAT SUCH FAMILIES DO NOT NEGLECT THEIR CHILDREN BUT RATHER ARE FORCED BY THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES TO TRAIN THEM TO BE INDEPENDENT. POOR…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Black Stereotypes, Blacks, Child Rearing

Harber, Clive – History of Education, 1993
Describes Namibian educational history from 1890 to the present. Discusses the political and military struggle for independence and the challenges of building an educational system consistent with democratic values. (CFR)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Apartheid, Blacks
Clark, Todd, Ed. – Bill of Rights in Action, 1984
Based on the book, "South Africa: Time Running Out," a report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa, this 10-20 day unit of study is designed to help high school students learn about the history, geography, and present situation in South Africa and its relationship to the United States. The first of four sections…
Descriptors: African History, Blacks, Case Studies, Civil Liberties
FRANKLIN, JOHN HOPE – 1965
NEGRO SLAVERY WAS DEEPLY ENTRENCHED BY THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE "PLACE" OF THE NEGRO CLEARLY DEFINED IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC. EVEN THE MORE LIBERAL NORTHERNERS FELT THAT NEGROES SHOULD BE ISOLATED FROM THE MAINSTREAM, I.E., IN SEPARATE SCHOOLS WHICH TAUGHT VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS, WHILE SOUTHERNERS PROPOSED…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Leadership, Blacks, Civil Rights
District Court, Cleveland, OH. Northern District of Ohio. – 1976
In reviewing statistics of the racial patterns in the recent history of the Cleveland public school system, as well as all of the evidence included in the voluminous record in this case, the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio sought an answer to a single question of constitutional law: to what extent, if any, were the defendants in…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Education, Blacks, Bus Transportation
Johnson-Bailey, Juanita – 2002
A project examined a 25-year period of African Americans in adult education by accessing the archival holdings of these 3 major data centers: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moorland-Spingarn Archives, and Hollis Burke Frissell Library. The study also examined the 1920-45 issues of The Journal of Negro History and The Journal of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acculturation, Adult Education, Black Community

Fultz, Michael – History of Education Quarterly, 1995
Examines the contradictory and often negative assessment of black teachers in the pre-World War II South by black leaders and civil rights advocates. Black leaders criticized teachers for being at best, poorly trained, and at worst, willing tools of socialized oppression. Asserts that the teachers performed well under difficult conditions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Education, Black History, Black Leadership