The real issue in this serious problem is not whether we should have physically mixed schools, but whether we are committed to creating an open society in which individuals can fully participate without regard to their ethnic, cultural, or social class identity. (Author)

Historical review of the cautious or antagonistic posture of Southern State National Education Association affiliates regarding school desegregation in the past decade. (JM)

Tested the hypothesis that White graduates of racially integrated schools (N=42) would be more tolerant than White graduates of racially segregated schools (N=49) by comparing the groups on the Dogmatism Scale. Results showed the integrated school graduates were more tolerant on the Belief-Disbelief dimension but not on total dogmatism.…

In the years following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate America's public schools, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Robert Penn Warren, and, to a lesser extent, C. Vann Woodward, provided intellectual sustenance to southern efforts to resist racial integration. Focuses on Faulkner's political…

The long road of slavery from generation to generation has left a legacy in the mind of African American students that has impacted their achievements in schools. In this project, the struggle of African American students in the public school education will be analyzed from the historical standpoint of view and its impact on their achievements.…

An examination of the merits of integrated school systems with respect to academic impact, the potential for improving race relations and the likelihood of bettering life opportunities for black students. Recent critiques of school integration are also evaluated. The tentative evidence is that interracial education, especially when implemented…

The 1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education decision went beyond legal analysis to demonstrate the cruelty and immorality of discrimination against black children. It was asserted in the Brown decision that separate education cannot be equal education, and that segregation has a particularly detrimental effect upon black children. The negative impact of…

However difficult desegregation may have been, and however distant full integration may still be, many Southern school systems have moved far enough in that direction to realize that the past is dead, and some of them may be beginning to see total equity as an asset to be prized. (Author)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

Describes recent court actions that have held segregation in northern schools to be in violation of the 14th Amendment. (JF)

Negro students in desegrated schools show signs of possessing greater self-esteem than those in totally segregated schools or in schools with at least one white instructor. (CK)

Despite the 1978 implementation of a new desegregation plan, analysts have found that Los Angeles schools are still segregated. This is the case because the master desegregation plan has a false definition of segregated schools, a protective covenant shielding the White schools, and a focus on their pretended desegregation. (Author/GC)

Examined the influence of educational desegregation on cognitive performance. Data from African American adults who had attended desegregated (DS) versus segregated (SS) schools indicated that DS adults had significantly higher mean cognitive scores than SS adults. After controlling for age, gender, years of education, and years in desegregated…