This document presents the Supreme Court decision in the law suit between the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and the Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC). MHDC, a nonprofit developer contracted to purchase a tract within the boundaries of the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois in order to build racially integrated low…

Two legal problems highlighted by the DeFunis litigation are: (1) the proper role of race in undergraduate admissions; and (2) the procedure of underground graduate admissions. (Author/KE)

It is necesary to examine both historic and current events in order to understand the role of race in the United States today. The South's formerly rigid caste system has come to resemble the more flexible Northern social order, which has always been open to blacks in times of labor shortage. A number of important social and economic phenomena…

White racism has influenced theory and practice in psychiatry and allied fields. Psychiatrists have largely ignored the interactionist approach, as expounded by Sullivan and Rush, in analyzing Negroes within their respective societies. Rather, in the vein of Freudian preoccupation with unconscious motivation, abnormal behavior and what is…

In this review of past and present state activities in racial desegregation, it can be seen that--while once states actually legalized or tolerated school segregation--increasingly state agencies can be expected to participate in the efforts to achieve quality, integrated education in the schools. (MJB)

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)

Data collected by the Louis Harris polling organization in 1978 concerning Black attitudes toward affirmative action programs were analyzed. It was found that Blacks who are optimistic and do not feel powerless generally support these programs. Whites who were also polled felt ambivalent toward them. (CJM)

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

Text of author's testimony before the Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Great and General Court, March 21, 1972, the main subject of the testimony being the possible amendment or repeal of the 1965 Racial Imbalance Law. (SB)

Antidiscrimination agencies have now gone through the stages necessary to become effective: (1) fighting procedural battles; (2) defining the nature of an antidiscrimination violation; (3) developing remedies; and (4) addressing problems arising in cases of voluntary compliance. It would thus be premature to abolish these agencies. (Author/GC)

Beginning in 1897, American Indians endured their own integration experience in professional baseball. The experience was propelled by government boarding schools, which used baseball as a tool for assimilation and for prestige and profit. But the players on boarding-school teams often found in the sport their own means of cultural resistance and…

In this article, the author discusses Portland Community College's Illumination Project, a yearlong academic theater program that tackles issues of oppression through interactive classroom and community performances. Participants write original interactive plays depicting incidents of oppression in students' lives. The project is a central aspect…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, has the expressed purposes of briefly discussing and evaluating some of the gains that have been made in the 10 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 20 years after the historic decision that ended legal school segregation.…