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

Contains extracts from a school segregation case involving whether Mexican-Americans constitute an identifiable ethnic group in desegregation proceedings, which question was decided in the affirmative. (DM)

Statement by the president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing to the Select Committee on Educational Opportunity, United States Senate, August 25, 1970. (JM)

Reviews the findings of several studies on the status of race and sex desegregation in the United States. Outlines recent school desegregation litigation and developments in a number of states. (GC)

Provides a review of the literature on African American history and education, discussing four historical phases of scholarship and covering topics such as scholarship on African American women, segregation in public education, and criticism of "Brown v. Board of Education." Includes an extensive bibliography. (CMK)

Describes a century of failed schooling for African American students, explaining how in the early 1900s, southern black schools were grossly inadequate and underfunded. Examines the writings of Thomas Jesse Jones and W.E.B. DuBois. Discusses attempts to change the educational system after World War II, efforts toward school desegregation, and…

Using institutional data on fall 1999 freshman admissions, we document the existence and magnitude of inequalities among California high schools in the access they provide to the University of California (UC). Because high schools are segregated by socioeconomic status and race, we examine how schools that differ on these dimensions also differ in…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, notes that what is faced in this country is the dismantling of a system of segregation and planned deprivation, both aspects of which were protected by the U.S. Supreme Court within a period of three years between "Plessy va Madison" 1896, and the…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

This report is concerned with racial segregation or integration of both teachers and students in the public schools of Missouri during the period 1954 to 1964. The information was collected by questionnaires, and the data analyzed by the University of Missouri researchers. In the beginning of the report, a brief introductory history of the black…

This case study illustrates that the Supreme Court's effort to construe school cases narrowly should fail, and that policy-makers, whether they are concerned with housing, schools, or other domains, should cultivate a broad perspective on the unity of the nation's racial problems. Available from The American Academy of Political and Social…

Contents of this region-by-region review includes reports on the removal of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh from the Commission on Civil Rights, the activities of a multi-racial organization in Los Angeles called the Coalition Against Blaxploitation,'' and other events. (JM)

An outline of judicial developments in the law of school desegregation designed to be of assistance to school boards and administrators in their policy deliberations. (SB)

Study reports findings excerpted from a broad study on social characteristics, attitudes, and behavior of inner-city students attending Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri in the Fall of 1970. It is held that the remarkable agreement on major issues of public policy shows the beneficial effects of integration. (SB)

In preparing its second brief in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the NAACP relied heavily on the knowledge and research skills of many scholars who had pursued graduate studies with awards from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which was devoted to the advancement of African Americans and improvement in race relations. The fellowship program also…