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Winsberg, Morton D. – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Research Bulletin, 1979
A study was conducted of the residential patterns of a segment of the Tallahassee, Florida, black professional community. The study set out to determine the degree to which black professionals, especially black university personnel, dispersed throughout the city between 1967 and 1976. The results suggest that in the ten year interval, there was a…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Blacks, College Faculty, Neighborhood Integration
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Featherman, David L.; Hauser, Robert M. – American Journal of Sociology, 1976
Comparison of black and white men in the experienced civilian labor force between 1972 and 1973 shows that race and class have become less important in the occupational hierarchy. Statistical tables are included. (ND)
Descriptors: Labor Force, Laborers, Racial Balance, Racial Distribution
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Cross, Theodore, Ed.; Slater, Robert Bruce, Ed. – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1996
Reveals that out of 5,000 endowed chairs in the nation's 50 most prestigious universities and liberal arts colleges, only 100 of them are held by African Americans, and only a handful of African Americans have an endowed chair named in their honor. Provides a list and descriptions of the endowed chairs named for African Americans. (GR)
Descriptors: Black Teachers, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
A federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Maryland had no right to restrict one of its scholarships to black students. This is the highest level judicial ruling on minority scholarships. The court rejected much of the university's evidence supporting such forms of financial aid. (MSE)
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Enrollment Rate, Higher Education
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Carter, William H.; Schill, Michael H.; Wachter, Susan M. – Urban Studies, 1998
Describes the concentration of poor and minority populations in public housing in the United States, and examines the relationship between the location of public housing and changes in neighborhood poverty rates through a longitudinal database for four large U.S. cities. In each city, a significant relationship can be traced. (SLD)
Descriptors: Databases, Longitudinal Studies, Minority Groups, Neighborhoods
Matney, William C.; Johnson, Dwight L. – 1983
This pamphlet is the first in a series designed to provide a compilation of selected demographic, social, economic, and other statistical data relating to selected populations. Topics covered here (in both discussion and table/graph format) include Black population growth and distribution, residence, income gain, poverty rate increase, labor force…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black Family, Black Population Trends, Census Figures
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Gover, Kathryn R.; McEaddy, Beverly J. – Monthly Labor Review, 1974
A special Labor Force Report shows that employment of veterans aged 20 to 34 rose steadily in 1973 and the first half of 1974. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Employment Level, Employment Qualifications, Employment Statistics
Egerton, John – Southern Educ Rep, 1969
Reprint from "State Universities and Black Americans, issued by Southern Education Reporting Service, Atlanta, Ga., 1969 (
Descriptors: College Desegregation, College Students, Faculty Integration, Graduate Students
Gaile, Gary L.; Yardley, Susan A. – 1979
While there exists considerable sentiment about the older urban areas of the United States, little empirical work dealing explicitly with the problems of these areas has been done. This study is a preliminary investigation into the use of urban age as an independent variable. Preliminary results indicate that: (1) racial transition is not related…
Descriptors: Income, Manufacturing Industry, Population Trends, Racial Distribution
WAXMAN, SINAI M. – 1963
FIRST THE REPORT DISCUSSES INTELLIGENCE DIFFERENCES, NOT ON A RACIAL BASIS, BUT MORE IN TERMS OF SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL DIFFERENCES. THEN THE REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS, (1) RACIAL DISTRIBUTION, (2) SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL DISTRIBUTION, AND (3) MOBILITY OF CHILDREN IN AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. TABLES CONTAIN THE…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Racial Distribution, School Desegregation, School Districts
Galster, George C. – 1978
Racial residential segregation has been a persistent feature of the American housing market. At least three distinct theories have been presented to explain this racial segregation. The "class" theory claims that, due to disproportionate overrepresentation of blacks in lower income classes, they will be overrepresented in lower quality housing…
Descriptors: Bias, Blacks, Housing Discrimination, Neighborhood Integration
Hall, Joe – 1966
A second annual report (1966) on the status of school integration in Dade County, Florida, includes data about every school department, and program in the school system as well as administrative and service personnel. The bulk of the document consists of nine tables which summarize the data. (NH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Desegregation Methods, Personnel Integration, Racial Distribution
Gertler, Diane B. – 1967
Data used in this study are based on information collected by the Bureau of Census, which canvassed 52,000 households. About 273,000 three-year-olds, 872,000 four-year-olds, and 2,724,000 five-year-olds were enrolled in preprimary programs in 1967. About 5.4 percent of the 3-year-olds, 15.6 percent of the 4-year-olds, and 45 percent of the…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Census Figures, Demography, Enrollment
Cahill, Edward E. – 1974
Although limited in scope, census data still provide the best general indexes of social change in the United States and where comparable categories over time periods exist the data can provide the basis for making decisions relevant to anticipated changes in the future. Changes from rural to urban residence among blacks in various age groups are…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Employment Patterns, Literature Reviews
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Stahura, John M. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1988
The increase in Black suburbanization during the 1960s and 70s is examined in the context of racial changes in earlier decades. A sample of 1,114 suburbs are examined, and regional differences between the North and South are described. Racial change occurred with greater relative frequency than in previous decades. (Author/VM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Differences, Population Distribution, Population Trends
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