Society in the Delta region of Mississippi is still rigidly segregated. A vast social and economic gulf yawns between the dominant white and subordinate black. Yet one group in Mississippi, a "third race," the Chinese, has managed to leap that chasm. This book focuses on the causes of their changes in status, the processes by which it…

The purpose of the present study is to examine the relative importance of sex and race preference as a basis for the choice of playmates and working companions in integrated elementary school classrooms. Subjects were 242 third-grade children from 11 randomly chosen classrooms. Twenty-one per cent of the children were black. A roster-and-rating…

Contents of this book include the following papers: "Moderation and common sense applied to desegregation"; "Cautions, conflicts, and considerations"; "Fulfilling the educational needs of Negro children"; "Integration and educational privilege"; "How can the schools fulfill their educational functions…

This monograph attempts to set the new minorities of American cities within a historically intelligible context. Although it addresses itself to educators and schools, it is not limited to this audience alone, and seeks to clarify the complexity as well as the origin of urban "problems." Major concepts from the literature on urbanization have been…

As a part of the responsibilities of the President's Commission for the Observation of Human Rights Year, a small group of diverse specialists was called together in 1968 to explore the role of education in combating racial discrimination. An agenda for action was prepared (using the education section of the Kerner Report) and used as a basis for…

The program authorized under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to provide help with problems incident to school desegregation, operated under an appropriation of $10,750,000 in fiscal year 1969. During this period, the Division of Equal Educational Opportunities (DEEO) supported five distinct program activities: direct technical assistance…

See TE 499 864, above.

A major project of research and development in education for a multiracial society running from April 1973 to December 1976 is designed to produce materials in support of the education of all pupils for life in a multiracial Britain. The project has the further aim of offering supporting materials to teachers in multiracial schools. However, at…

The purpose of the study reported here was to design a model for the development of a human relations program in selected racially mixed public schools. The following efforts were undertaken: (1) an examination of the literature to obtain the rationale for school desegregation, (2) an identification of a national sample of desegregated school…

This paper took as its problem the belief among the general public that conflict and violence among students is a common occurrence, especially in schools that are racially mixed. The responses of 303 students from a racially mixed school. Berkeley High School, were grouped in terms of the degree to which the individual students are socially…

An update and expansion of a 1964 analysis of the Negro in Syracuse, the study has described and analyzed the black community within Syracuse and related it to similar communities in New York State. By following the same general format of the earlier study, there is ease in analyzing changes in the condition of the black community in Syracuse over…

This ninth annual study of the status of desegregation in the Dade County Public Schools shows the racial and ethnic composition of student and employee groups throughout the school system and has tables with selected data from prior years for ease in noting changes which might have occurred. This report contains data to assist school officials in…

The hearings on the issues before the Court in this school desegregation case encompassed weeks of trial. The primary defendants in the instant issue were members of the Virginia State Board of Education; the State Superintendent of Public Instruction; and the members of the respective school boards and boards of supervisors of Henrico and…

This paper pursues the question: "When is conflict functional to a proponent of change?" Interview data from school desegregation controversies in 91 Northern cities is used. Four major findings from the data show ways in which conflict seems to both facilitate and hinder effects to obtain desegregation: On the one hand, cities with militant black…

This study attempted to answer the following questions. Do differences in academic achievement, grade level, sex, and race influence peer perceptions of black and white students as satisfiers of needs achievement recognition and succorance? Can interracial peer acceptance be predicted from intelligence, academic achievement, attendance, age, sex,…