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Download full textMEIER, AUGUST; RUDWICK, ELLIOTT – 1967
THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEGRO SCHOOL BOYCOTTS FROM 1897 TO 1925 IN ALTON, ILL., EAST ORANGE, N.J., AND SPRINGFIELD AND DAYTON, OHIO, WHERE ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO INTRODUCE RACIALLY SEPARATE SCHOOLS. THE REVIEW DESCRIBES THE PROTEST MOVEMENT AND THE VICISSITUDES OF THE INTEGRATION ATTEMPTS IN EACH CITY. ALL THE NEGRO PROTEST…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Blacks, Board of Education Role, Community Action
Child Study Association of America, Inc., New York, NY. – 1967
This document is based on the theory that the ultimate success of the Head Start program in significantly correcting the educational disabilities of culturally deprived children depends on involving and educating the parents. This method would at least improve the immediate family environment of the deprived child. This document therefore sets out…
Descriptors: Community Action, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Guides, Family Influence
Puerto Rican Forum, Inc., New York, NY. – 1964
A two-pronged proposal for a project to develop the New York City Puerto Rican community is presented. In the research phase a comprehensive social profile of the community will be prepared to indicate Puerto Rican attitudes toward social institutions, services, organizations, and facilities. The community's social structure, socioeconomic status,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations
Kirschner Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. – 1967
The Reed College (Portland, Oregon) adult literacy training program, funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), is intended to provide tutoring for functionally illiterate adults in reading, mathematics, English, social studies, and related subjects. Reed College has also cooperated with two OEO programs already completed--school district…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, College School Cooperation, Colleges
Hart, Elinor – 1976
This report of a conference on "Desegration without Turmoil" describes the community organization and public information efforts that preceded the implementation of government ordered school integration in cities where this transition was accomplished peacefully. It is the position of the participants in the conference that peaceful desegration in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Education
Denver Univ., CO. American Issues Forum Regional Program. – 1975
The American Issues Forum (AIF) is the national program for the Bicentennial developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and cosponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. The purpose of the Leadership Packet is to provide those who are interested in developing AIF Programs with suggestions about how to plan and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bibliographies, Community Action, Community Education
Guidelines for ERIC Clearinghouses: Outreach to Citizens Concerned with Educational Decision Making.
McCormick, Regina – 1976
Guidelines to help ERIC clearinghouses reach lay persons and inform them of the resources available through the ERIC information network are provided. The guidelines were developed following on-site interviews with persons who have expertise in information dissemination and/or who are actively involved in providing information to citizens involved…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Information Services, Decision Making
McCormick, Regina – 1976
Guidelines to help ERIC microfiche collection holders acquaint lay persons in their community with the resources available through the ERIC information network are provided. The guidelines were developed following on-site interviews with persons who have expertise in information dissemination and/or who are actively involved in providing…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Information Services, Decision Making
Barrera, Mario, Comp.; Vialpando, Geralda, Comp. – 1974
A set of processes, occurring throughout the urban Southwest, is fragmenting and dislocating the barrios that exist in and around metropolitan areas, displacing the Chicano population and acting as a source of disruption and instability in the community. This pamphlet presents three interviews describing projects undertaken by Chicanos in three…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Action, Community Change, Community Control
Project KARE, Blue Bell, PA. – 1974
Twenty-two elementary and secondary schools from throughout the five-county Southeastern Pennsylvania region were selected by Project KARE (Knowledgeable Action to Restore our Environment) to receive grants for Local Action Programs (LAP) of environmental education during 1973-1974. This guide reviews these twenty-two programs including the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Conservation Education, Educational Programs, Elementary Education
Vanecko, James J.; Jacobs, Bruce – 1970
This study evaluated the role of the community action agencies (CAAs) in making other institutions more responsive to the needs of the poor. Institutional changes in education, employment, private welfare, and politics were examined in relation to certain characteristics of CAAs. Interviews were held with CAA personnel (both central and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Action, Community Centers, Community Characteristics
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Labor Relations and Research Center.
This is a report of a training project conducted in Massachusetts to explore mechanisms through which organized labor might involve itself more fully in new and existing programs for preventing and controlling youth crime. Specifically, the objectives were: (1) to explore the problem of the young offender, (2) to explore what is being done for the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Conferences, Delinquency Causes
Meaders, O. Donald, Ed.; Ekpo-ufot, Abel, Ed. – 1968
The Shared-Time Concept project was one of several projects conducted under a grant for a developmental vocational education research and teacher education program based on a clinical school concept. The objectives were (1) to determine the extent and nature of use of shared-time concept for conducting vocational education programs, and (2) to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Community, Community Action
Avery, Robert W.; Chesler, Herbert A. – 1967
This case study examines the development and problems of the Mon-Yough Community Action Committee, Inc. (MYCAC), one of the local anti-poverty agencies in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The agency's major effort is to overcome problems created by the decline of the local steel industry by supporting existing welfare agencies, and through such…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Involvement
Kenney, Brigitte L., Ed. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1973
In September 1972, a federally-funded 3-day institute was held, under the auspices of the Drexel University Graduate School of Library Science, to acquaint librarians from local State and Regional public libraries with current developments in the cable television field as they affect library planning and activities. The program utilized several…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Community Action, Conference Reports, Information Needs
