THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF THIS PREPARATORY RESEARCH PROGRAM WAS TO ASCERTAIN THE FEASIBILITY OF MAKING A FULL-SCALE STUDY OF THE DYNAMICS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION CONTROVERSIES IN NEW YORK CITY. METHODS INVOLVED INTERVIEWING AND OBSERVING LEADERS AT CITYWIDE AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEVELS, INCLUDING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, TEACHERS, PARENT…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAPERBACK BOOKS ON THE NEGRO AMERICAN LISTS FICTION, SOCIAL HISTORIES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES SUITABLE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. EACH ENTRY IS LABELED APPROPRIATE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, OR BOTH. THE ADDRESSES OF THE PUBLISHERS OF THESE WORKS ARE ALSO INDICATED.…

Desegregation statistics for Dade County, Florida, are provided in tabular form. A brief history of desegregation in Dade County precedes the data. Tables 1-7 contains the basic data obtained in a survey of the entire school system and include data for both pupils and employees. Table 8 reveals the exact extent of desegregation in each school. In…

The High School Characteristic Index (H.S.C.I.) was employed at a high school in Rochester to measure students' perceptions, as well as teachers' ability to predict students' perceptions, after black-white violence occurred in May, 1970. The 1970 results were compared with 1966 results of the H.S.C.I. at the same high school when a different…

Reviews the history of court ordered desegregation of schools. Includes three guidelines defining the implications for facility planners: separate but equal is inherently unequal, the scope of remedies will be in proportion to the extent of constitutional violation, and states will be mandated to finance (partially or completely) capital…

Introduces special issue (with same title) designed to demonstrate how Blacks and whites, as allies, used 'tongue, pen, and participation' (social, political, religious, economic, judicial) to protest conditions such as discrimination, inequality, and segregation. Also gives broad overview of Black involvement in the antislavery movement. (CMG)

Education for liberation of Africans and African-Americans is a continuous process of uncovering that environment which denies natural growth and development, and of discovering new sets of knowledge and reinterpreting old sets to accelerate renaming the world. (Author)

Data gathered within the Kalamazoo Urbanized Area indicate that white attitudes are significantly related to both: (1) the level of interaction between whites and blacks, and (2) the distance between residence and the Negro neighborhood. When control is made for interaction, relationship between attitude and distance is greatly weakened,…

Author is New York State's Commissioner of Education. (CB)

Pace's College and University Environmental Scales (CUES), used to test the environment of Randolph-Macon Woman's College 1959-69, showed that stability in administrative personnel and faculty along with student body drawn mostly from same social and educational backgrounds over period of time produces basically stable environment despite period…

Discusses U. S. Justice Department role in school desegregation cases in Florida and North Carolina. (KJ)

Examines whether opposition to busing springs from self-interest (such as having children susceptible to busing) or merely racial attitudes on the part of those not involved. Concludes that self-interest is overestimated as a determinant of public opinion. Available from The American Political Science Association, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.,…