The controversy around quotas, school integration, open admissions, and reverse racism indicates a serious problem for equal educational opportunities and employment for minorities. United action of all people for effective integrated education is stressed. (Author/AM)

This report documents long-term trends in racial/ethnic enrollment in higher education and presents enrollment data for the fall of 1988. The first section presents overall enrollment trends for institutions of higher education by racial/ethnic categories and selected student and institutional characteristics, such as sex, level of study, type of…

Georgia ranks fifth in the nation in the size of its black population, fourth in percentage of blacks, and fifth in number of black elected officials. The social and economic situation of black Georgians has generally improved over the last 20 years. This report provides statistics and charts which show that: (1) during the 1970s, for the first…

This paper, which deals chiefly with Black English (BE), is an attempt "to exemplify some general principles concerning the nature of nonstandard dialects" with the chief goal of demonstrating the legitimacy of such dialects and fostering an attitude of respect towards them. The following points are stressed: (1) BE shares many features with other…

Prepared for the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Commission, this report provides employment data compiled and analyzed using the EEO-1 reporting system. Major sections of the report are: (1) The Occupational Distribution of Minority Employment, (2) The Occupational Distribution of Minority Groups by Industry, and (3) The Occupational…

This document reports the results of the fall 1972 racial census at the University of Maryland. Only new freshmen, transfer students, and readmitted students filled out the racial census cards. All returning students constituted the data base of the student body. By adding new and deleting old racial census cards, counts could be made. Results of…

Justice Powell's leading opinion in the Bakke case stressed educational diversity over state responsibility. It is suggested that, even where diversification fails as a goal, the desire to overcome the effects of past discrimination may still avail. (Author/LBH)

To explore possible sources of the underrepresentation of minority groups in law school, this paper brings together existing data that describe the participation of members of different racial/ethnic groups, especially African Americans and Hispanics, at successive points along the way to employment in the law. It focuses on the process by which…

This paper presents data on racial segregation in public elementary schools in 60 cities for the 1967-68 year. As of fall 1967 few large school systems had been compelled by law to desegregate. These data represent the best available baseline prior to the major desegration efforts and controversies of recent years. (Author/RM)

Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…

Comprised of an explanatory foreword, expressions of present federal policy, racial distribution in public schools, alternative school policy proposals, and action to date in the 91st Congress. (JM)

The effects on two selected student variables and the post high school employment adjustment of male Negroes of the following environmental parameters were assessed: percentage of Negroes in high schools, types of community, and geographical regions. (JM)

Study finds that lower SES high school graduates from metropolitan areas experience more difficulty in attaining college degrees that higher status students. Also, minorities from predominantly minority high schools have more difficulties than minorities from predominantly White schools. (DM)

Data on total undergraduate enrollments, scholarship athletes, football scholarship athletes, and men's basketball scholarship athletes, and percentage of each group that are African Americans, are tabulated for 245 institutions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. (MSE)