The impact of the Knight v. Alabama ruling by looking at undergraduate student demographic data for historically African American Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University and traditionally American Auburn University and the University of Alabama is discussed. To eradicate the remaining residue of discrimination and segregation, the…

The study reported here demonstrates institutional racism in the staffing procedures of the Buffalo public school system during the period 1956-63; the proportion of temporary, inexperienced and male teachers appointed to segregated black vs. segregated white schools was determined. (Author/JM)

Presents views of legislators and organizations who are opponents of busing school children to achieve racial balance in public schools. (SF)

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)

The stenographic record of testimony by five students, one mother, and one former teacher before the House Committee on Education and Labor hearings on amendments to the National School Lunch Act. (JM)

Summarizes the steps taken to document the racially-related resource disparities in the Los Angeles school system. Schools were classified by racial/ethnic mix, per pupil spending levels were related to the mix, and the distribution of teacher resources was examined. (IRT)

In McCrary v. Runyon, the Court of Appeals confronted the racially exclusive admissions policies of two private, segregated schools, each of which relied entirely on tuition and private donations for its operations. The court was unpersuaded by the schools' claim of constitutional protection. The significance of the decision is discussed. (LBH)

May 17, 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the most significant school segregation case: "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954). While the Brown decision eliminated the legal theory of "separate but equal," the success of the "Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District et al". (1946) case helped boost public sentiment against segregation, setting…

Article reports the detailed findings of the Boston METCO study of the effects of busing on black students, and those of several other comparable studies. (RJ)

A survey beginning with the work of those Reconstruction legislatures that asserted free education as a right of the black citizen and concluding with a summary of the multiple forms the black revolt has taken since the 1954 Brown decision. (JM)

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which theoretically ended school segregation in America. But many schools are as segregated today as they were before the ruling, and Black children throughout the United States are performing at the bottom of the American educational system. The nation's capital, Washington,…

For 100 years a system of Native Schools operated in New Zealand, the principal objective of which was to support a state policy of assimilation. Decisions to disband the system were made in a context of social, economic and demographic change, and were rationalized as providing a positive step forward for Maori. Also influential was the growing…

[Available from Wayne State University Law School, 468 West Ferry, Detroit, Michigan 48202]. (JM)

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

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)