This timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education almost as long as Black Issues In Higher Education has been in print. The ongoing legal battles have primarily involved the further desegregation of schools and the use of race and gender in scholarships and university…

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of school districts across the nation operating under court orders to desegregate their schools. The cost of complying with these court orders runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and thousands of people are charged with overseeing the effective use of these dollars. This book is based on…

The effects of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision of 1954 reached some 160 million people and had implications for about 40 percent of all school children in the United States. The impetus for social reform emanating from this decision extended beyond school children and the public school arena to the civil rights movement…

This legal case may answer some questions for lawyers on the limits to which desegregation may be carried under the backing of the Brown decision, yet it raises several specific questions that educators and educational researchers ought to address concerning factors that contribute to effective integration. (AM)

Concludes that while the computer may conceivably assist in desegregation planning, it cannot substitute for carefully considered educational and social policy. Criticisms of the computer plan center on the impoverished educational and social policy behind it. (Author/AM)

Investigates evidence suggesting the presence of post-desegregation discrimination in all 170 Georgia school systems. (Author/AM)

Because of changing concepts of equal and effective education and challenges to traditional assumptions of the desirability of integration and racial mixing, there is now much uncertainty as to the meaning of the Brown decision, especially in Northern cities. (EH)

Reviews the foundations of present Federal policy on school busing to achieve desegregation and summariezes judicial trends of the 1960's and Congressional actions since 1964. (Author/SF)

This document presents the Commission on Civil Rights' findings and recommendations on the desegregation process, specifically the planning phase, in Los Angeles, California. It is the result of Commission investigations in Los Angeles which began in October 1976 and ended in a three-day hearing beginning on December of 1976. The report also…

This booklet contains two papers: (1) "Federal Agencies and Urban Segregation: Steps Toward Coordinated Action," by Gary Orfield; and (2) "Mounting a Concerted Federal Attack on Urban Segregation," by William L. Taylor. In the first paper, racial, economic, and educational trends in urban areas are reviewed. Lack of Federal commitment,…

The special program component of the St. Louis desegregation plan is reviewed. Some of the nonintegrated schools have been improved in the following ways: (1) better instruction; (2) additional staff; (3) remedial, compensatory, and enrichment programs; (4) parent programs; and (5) parent staff seminars. Financial and legal support should increase…

Describes the advantages of school desegregation for educationally deprived children, and reviews some of the major Supreme Court decisions on desegregation. Presents a case history of desegregation efforts in Little Rock, Arkansas, and concludes with excerpts from the author's testimony at a Circuit Court hearing in 1982. (KH)

Impact of school desegregation edicts is measured and compliance theory is discussed. Existing research is examined concerning coercion required to produce compliance with school desegregation guidelines in 31 Georgia school districts. Journal available from Southern Political Science Association at the office of publication, 107 Peabody Hall,…

Deals with three questions--(1) Is integration of the races a desirable goal for public schools in the black cities? (2) If desirable, is it feasible? and, (3) If desirable and feasible, how is it to be accomplished?--expressing the position of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. (Author/JM)