The history of public higher education for African Americans in Florida provides an excellent opportunity to examine American institutional and political dynamics. Following World War II, Florida public higher education expanded dramatically, while at the same time, state leaders maintained racial segregation well after "Brown v. Board of…

Presents a historical study of music education in the segregated Black schools of Kansas City, Kansas, between 1904-1954. The discussion covers the educational leadership, organization, music curriculum, and activities in the public schools and at Western University. Black private music instructors and outstanding students of the period are…

The long road of slavery from generation to generation has left a legacy in the mind of African American students that has impacted their achievements in schools. In this project, the struggle of African American students in the public school education will be analyzed from the historical standpoint of view and its impact on their achievements.…

Examines Viktor Lowenfeld's activities as an instructor at the Hampton Institute, Virginia (1939-1946), an essentially Black school in a pre-civil rights movement southern setting. Discusses his theoretical statements and his behaviors in relation to teaching art to Black adults. (GEA)

Asserts that the Jewish experience in Germany, insofar as it may be generalized, suggests that minority education is significant to its constituency only insofar as it is perceived to be "useful" or "necessary": the primary defining factors are economic and social, and the conditions are set by the majority society, not by…

In 1895 a group of local black parents decided to act against Jamaica, Long Island's school segregation policies. That struggle is outlined in this article. Persons and events important in the history of black elementary and secondary education in the area are discussed. (Author/GC)

Attempts to highlight some of the negative and positive aspects of the school systems which were maintained for black students during the period following the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in southern states. Provides information from approximately 25 interviews of both black and white educators in Georgia who had some involvement in both…

While Mexican children in the cities were often segregated, the children of Mexican migrant farmworkers were totally ignored by state educational officials before 1920. While a state-directed plan for these children was started in 1919, local school districts continued not to enforce state attendance requirements among the group. (NQ)

Provides a brief history of the discrimination against Black education and argues that Blacks now attend separate and unequal schools. (IRT)

This research describes "how" and "when" the separate schools in nineteenth-century Boston were organized and the role of the black community in the establishment of a system of segregated education. (Editor/RK)

The author traces the relationship between racism and education in South Africa in light of the numerous racist policies and practices that the South African government has pursued and continues to implement. Dube describes the introduction of Bantu education and draws attention to the intended and unintended outcomes of this system. (Author/CT)

Reviews the actions taken by northern black parents in opposition to policies of school segregation. (JM)