Presents excerpts from a 1955 essay by Benjamin E. Mays, long-time president of Morehouse College, on the meaning of racial segregation and the damage it inflicted. Describes three reasons for legal segregation, explaining why it is immoral and how it has damaged the souls and minds of millions of African Americans who will never be cured of…

In September 1957, nine brave Black students crossed a line of armed soldiers to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the first major test of school desegregation after "Brown v. Board of Education" toppled the notion of "separate but equal." Though this is still an operating high school, on most days…

Sixteen year old James Coster talks about being black in England. He presents reasons for the necessity of the racial separatism that he advocates. (GC)

In Birmingham, Alabama, more all White and all Black neighborhoods were found in 1977 than in 1970. White population increased where the prospect of having Black neighbors was low and housing units were increasing in number, whereas Black population increased in neighborhoods decreasing in terms of numbers of housing units. (Author/GC)

Examines changes in patterns of Black-White housing segregation in St. Louis (Missouri) between 1980 and 1988 using data from the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census. St. Louis exhibited a persistent pattern of segregation from 1940 to 1980. Finds the city remains quite segregated compared to 1980 national averages. (DM)

While the Catholic Church did some positive things with respect to Negroes during the post-Civil War period, these efforts did not change the social plight of blacks, nor did the church use its own moral force to combat the anti-Negro bias of its own people. (EH)

THE CURRENT STATUS OF ANTI-SCHOOL DESEGREGATION LAWS AND SOME OTHER DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES ARE REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE. ALTHOUGH MANY OF THESE LAWS ARE STILL IN EXISTENCE, A RECENT EXAMINATION HAS SHOWN THAT THEY ARE NOT USED OR ENFORCED. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE "SOUTHERN EDUCATION REPORT,"…

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)

Notes that as resistance to desegregation has grown among whites, there has been a revival in some quarters of the separate but equal doctrine. (Author/AM)

Recognizes allegorical patterns controlling Chestnutt's novel, "The Marrow of Tradition," in response to criticisms concerning stereotyped characters and overplotting. Feels that Chestnutt is stating that given the death of benevolence in White society and the suicidal nature of violent Black retaliation, separatism alone offers Black…

Asserts that racism is part of everyday life among U.S. Latinos and is confounded by U.S. racism. Further asserts white Latinos implement systematic racism against their dark compatriots, supported by institutionalized U.S. racism. Elite white Latinos distance themselves from "social white" Latinos. U.S. racism defines interethnic and…

The Supreme Court decision banning school segregation is presented in this article. (MC)

Race has played a key role in American life-style from the early colonial days to the present. Thus, it is a more important determinant of political behavior than class, particularly for Black Americans. (Author/MC)

Investigated how well the spatial assimilation, primacy of race, and ethnic identity models would explain black immigrants' spatial relations with Whites and African Americans. Data from the 1990 decennial census Summary Tape File 4A and from the 1999 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey indicated that regardless of degree of acculturation,…

Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools' two new coeducational African-American immersion schools are not segregationist. Key programmatic changes are based on an African social education concept and include staffing based on teaching experience (not race or gender), teacher class assignments lasting two or more years, teacher home visits, staff…