Civil rights leader's widow suggests activities conducive to peaceful social change, including Foundation-released film. Describes King Atlanta Center's plans for teacher-training in nonviolent means to attack poverty, fortify women's rights, improve race relations and black representation, end segregation outside South. (PD)

Describes the threatened extinction of Black principalships in the South, and decries the threatened loss of leadership to the Negro community that this implies. (JF)

To meet the needs of young black students in integrated junior high schools, adult black human relations specialists were systematically selected and trained and assigned within the school system. They functioned above levels determined to be minimally effective and were generally highly rated by students, principals and administrative staff,…

The Brown decision is examined in light of the changing racial attitudes during the 1930s and 1940s. The effects, both positive and negative, of the decision are also discussed with emphasis on the continuing fight to bring about equal opportunity. (MC)

Concerned officials in many institutions in the South view significant increases in minority student enrollment as one solution to student desegregation. If success is to be achieved strategy must be based on a sensitivity to respond to social and cultural experiences of the minority service community. (Author/BEF)

Describes the more interesting findings of a telephone survey of 304 persons in the Milwaukee area, using the 25-item Desegregation Attitude Test. The study demonstrated the persistence of racial prejudice and a higher resistence to desegregation among suburban and less educated respondents. (Author/PGD)

The many uses and effects of a magnet school are discussed. (LH)

Presents a number of ethnic identity development models proposed by leading investigators in the field of psychology and discusses the models' relevance to Latinos. Describes a variety of dimensions that should be considered in conceptualizing Latino ethnic identity development, such as the process of acculturation, biculturalism, gender, and…

Ranks the 26 leading U.S. universities according to their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and graduating African American students as well as their progress in bringing black professors to their campuses. Universities are ranked according to a blending of 13 widely accepted quantitative measures of institutional racial integration. Duke…

Discusses desegregation of parochial schools, examining the Roman Catholic Church's struggle to reconcile its moral imperative to desegregate its parochial schools with temporal pressures to resist, as documented in the archives of the Catholic Council of Human Relations in New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the largest number of African American…

Examines data taken from a 109-city sample to describe patterns of racial change in the context of segregation decline between 1970 and 1980. Integration occurred more through decline in the proportion of Black residents in areas defined as mostly Black (deconcentration) than through Blacks moving into mostly White neighborhoods (integration).…

Beverly Daniel Tatum, child psychologist and a dean at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, who has written about racial-identity development in teens and its impact in the classroom, argues that straight talk about race is essential and that racism affects everyone. (JOW)

Observed public and private school lunchrooms and recorded where students sat by race, calculating the percentage of students who sat with students of other races. Overall, 63.5 percent of private school students and 49.7 percent of public school students sat in integrated groups. Influences on integration included segregated housing patterns,…

The work of the Commission on Gender, Race, and Class in Teacher Education Programs is grounded in the belief that it is impossible to make sense of the field of English education without using gender, race, and class as central categories of description and analysis. Rather, gender, race, and class are basic to the study and understanding of the…