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Wilson, Anna Victoria; Segall, William E. – 2001
Stories of school desegregation are ultimately about people--teachers who work in the schools and the students who are there to learn. This book focuses on the front line teachers and their recollections of the effort to desegregate faculty in the Austin (TX) Independent School District during 1964-1971 in compliance with the "Brown v. Board…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Blacks, Educational History, Interviews
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Richard, Orlando C.; Kirby, Susan L. – Journal of Black Psychology, 1997
Used an organizational justice approach to examine workforce diversity programs and their potential effects on attitudes of African American beneficiaries through data from 66 African American undergraduates. Beneficiaries were more concerned about adequate procedural justification for the decision to hire them under a diversity program than the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Attitudes, Blacks, Employment Practices
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Johnson, Jean; Farkas, Steve – Arts Education Policy Review, 1999
Summarizes key findings from "Time to Move On: African-American and White Parents Set an Agenda for Public Schools," which reports the aspirations and concerns of black and white parents according to telephone surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews of parents and public educational professionals. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes
Wright, Sarah – 1990
This biography for younger readers describes the life of A. Philip Randolph, the civil rights activist who organized the labor union for Pullman car porters, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The book presents an overview of the civil rights movement in the United States while documenting the part Randolph played as advocate for African…
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Black History, Black Leadership
Ascher, Carol – 1986
This brief digest reviews research findings on achieving racial integration in desegregated magnet schools. Studies show that resegregation tends to occur in most schools after desegregation as a result of tracking and ability grouping; furthermore, as the numbers of blacks rise in a school, the resegregation in classrooms tends to rise. A number…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Blacks, Desegregation Methods, Magnet Schools
Hamilton, Doug – 1980
Statistical data on student and faculty desegregation supplied by the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Board of Education for the 1978-79 and 1979-80 school years were analyzed. The number of schools not in compliance with school desegregation guidelines was reduced between 1978-79 and 1979-80. The inclusion of first graders in the desegregation plan…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Solomon, Benjamin – Illinois Schools Journal, 1968
This document points out the link between racism and education as interrelated social institutions, analyzes educators' positions on the issue, and offers a concept of educational integration. Within a racist society the schools and its teachers will perforce reflect the dominant pattern in all the components of education. A racist attitude among…
Descriptors: Blacks, Education, Educational Responsibility, Racial Attitudes
Allen, James E., Jr. – 1965
This address outlined many of the problems confronting urban education. Listed as needs which are important prerequisites were such imperatives as adequate financing, changing attitudes, innovation, equalization of opportunities for the disadvantaged, and preparation and retraining of teachers. The author gave recognition to the attention in the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Curriculum, Educational Planning
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Rex, John – Integrated Education, 1981
Discusses social discrimination against Asians and West Indians in Great Britain. Considers issues such as housing, educational and employment opportunities, and cultural bias. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Benavidez, Max – Equal Opportunity Forum, 1981
The only minority member of the Los Angeles Board of Education answers questions concerning problems encountered in desegregating Los Angeles schools. Available from: P.O. Box 41048, Los Angeles, CA 90041. (CM)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Busing, Hispanic Americans
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Sorce, James F. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1979
Investigates Black and White children's development of the concept of race, the visual cues each group uses to distinguish races and the relation of children's racial awareness to their residence in an integrated or segregated community. (BH)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
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Dugan, Tim – OAH Magazine of History, 2002
Describes a unit that focuses on the integration of African Americans into the U.S. Armed forces during World War II. Utilizes primary sources spanning the years 1938-1945. Provides information and Web site addresses for the documents, discussion questions, and information on assessment. (CMK)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Black History, Blacks, Educational Strategies
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Fife, Brian L. – Urban Education, 1994
Explores the most-effective type of desegregation plan for the reduction of segregation in public schools by using a choice-assignment continuum for 20 plans to account for variation in desegregation orders. Plans the rely on assignment reduce the level of desegregation more than do choice plans. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans
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Pico, Elaine; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
This survey of 82 first-year medical students at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, found that students with more experience working or interacting socially with African Americans or Hispanics were more likely to expect to treat minority patients, practice with minority partners, and reside in predominantly…
Descriptors: Blacks, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans, Medical Students
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1995
The Minorities and Communication section of the proceedings contains the following 10 papers: "A Content Analysis of Advertising Techniques in Mass Market and African-American Magazine Advertisements" (Jan S. Slater and others); "Political and Racial Adversaries: Southern Black Elected Officials and the Press" (Daniel Riffe and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Affirmative Action, Blacks, Content Analysis
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