School busing is discussed in relation to racial prejudice and politics. (MM)

The black librarians in Southern schools are the first of the faculty to integrate white schools, the first transferred and are largely left out of the power structure. (MF)

IT IS HELD THAT IN A SENSE, AMERICAN SOCIETY EDUCATES FOR PREJUDICE. NEGROES AND WHITES DEVELOP A BIAS FOR THE WHITE RACE AT AN EARLY AGE. PREFERENCE FOR THE WHITE RACE WAS EVIDENT AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN WHEN THE MAJORITY OF 253 NEGRO CHILDREN IN MASSACHUSETTES AND ARKANSAS WERE ASKED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN A WHITE AND A COLORED DOLL. CHILDREN PREFERRED…

The American Library Association's (ALA) Black Caucus expects that the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee will proceed to carry out the mandate--to censure and bring sanctions against those librarians and libraries that provide service to segregated schools established to circumvent the U. S. Supreme Court Decision. (Author/MF)

This article describes how Alan Newton has put his life back together after he was set free. Before he came to Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, Newton spent 22 years locked up in 12 different New York state prisons for a crime he did not commit. His ordeal began when a White woman who had been raped in the Bronx mistakenly identified the…

A review of events, public statements, reports and studies, during the time period September-October, 1974, that reflect various issues dealing with racial and sexual discrimination and school integration in the United States in general as well as a listing by individual state. (EH)

Consists of 8 articles entitled: (1) Winners and Losers; (2) What the Statistics Say; (3) Northern Integration; (4) Massive Resistance Northern Style; (5) The Case of New York City; (6) As the Students See It; (7) Mississippi Conversations; (8) Reflections on the Past Twenty Years. Each deals with the aftermath of Brown vs. the Board of Education.…

Presents an historical picture of the influence of African writers and poets on European literature. (SB)

Data gathered within the Kalamazoo Urbanized Area indicate that white attitudes are significantly related to both: (1) the level of interaction between whites and blacks, and (2) the distance between residence and the Negro neighborhood. When control is made for interaction, relationship between attitude and distance is greatly weakened,…

Examines whether opposition to busing springs from self-interest (such as having children susceptible to busing) or merely racial attitudes on the part of those not involved. Concludes that self-interest is overestimated as a determinant of public opinion. Available from The American Political Science Association, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.,…

Article emphasizes greater utilization of the creative leadership of black teachers in multi-racial schools. (Editor/GB)

Black culture has always been considered inferior, as the patterns of integration testify: the Black child has been sent to the white school but never vice-versa. The net result of America's history of discrimination has been a negative self-image for the Black person, an image which the "Black is Beautiful" movements are trying to counteract.…

Paper delivered at the Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders Memorial Lecture on March 24, 1971 at Chatham House, London, England to members and guests of the Institute of Race Relations, London. (RJ)