Describes efforts of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws (CCEAD), led by Mary Church Terrell, to abolish segregation in public eating places and other businesses in the nation's capital in the early 1950s. (GC)

Throughout the 1960's, when racial strife was rampant throughout the nation, Atlanta's shining image was, to a large degree, the result of a black majority too busy to hate." (Author/RJ)

Surveys past two decades of struggle for Black civil rights in the U.S., measuring progress in the areas of political equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity, economic equality, and social equality. Concludes that Black people in 1983 remain as oppressed as 20 years ago. (RDN)

Sees the scholarly community's failure to look seriously at the history of Blacks in intercollegiate sports as a missed opportunity to understand an important dimension of Afro-American intellectual history, the nature and development of the modern civil rights struggle, and the Black protest movement. (Author/CMG)