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Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1979
In this review, historical events are used to depict those aspects of American and especially black history which preceded the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Slavery, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement are discussed. Efforts to achieve equal educational opportunity are described and an overview of school desegregation and other…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black History, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation
Download full textVREDEVOE, LAWRENCE E. – 1967
TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF DESEGREGATION ON SCHOOL DISCIPLINE, PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND BOARD OFFICIALS, PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND COMMUNITY LAY LEADERS. IT WAS FOUND THAT DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS WERE CAUSED BY THE STUDENT'S INSECURITY AND RESENTMENT AT BEING WHAT THEY CONSIDERED "PAWNS" IN THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Discipline, Family Environment
District Court, New York, NY. Eastern District of New York. – 1974
Plaintiffs are students enrolled in Franklin K. Lane High School, and they sue on behalf of all others similarly situated for an adjudication that their school has been so zoned as to make and keep it a segregated school in spite of its location. They moved to enjoin further enforcement of the school's zoning. The board moved for summary judgment.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation
NCRIEEO Newsletter, 1972
The Equal Educational Opportunity Workshop for Human Rights Workers focused on the theme "Equal Educational Opportunity--What Does It Mean to the Human Rights Worker? A Deep Examination of Professional Commitment." Most school systems and educational institutions have human rights specialists devoting staff time and resources to race and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Isolation
Wainer, Andrew – Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2004
The lack of resources devoted to educating Latinos in emerging immigrant communities is generating negative educational outcomes and de facto educational segregation in the South. While Latino immigrants continue to dominate employment in the meat processing, service, and construction sectors in these communities, they are underrepresented on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Segregation, Educational Objectives, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedBrook, Diane L. – Social Education, 1997
Profiles the process of South Africa's transformation into a democracy. Outlines the many characteristics of the transition from white to majority rule, such as the attempt to achieve catharsis and bury the apartheid past through a process of amnesty and reconciliation. Describes the remaining obstacles to that transition. (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Apartheid, Civil Rights
Direct linkGutierrez, Kris D.; Jaramillo, Nathalia E. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
This chapter attempts to begin a conversation about how so many of people in the educational and academic communities have come to believe that educational equity could be mediated by legal measures and federal and local reforms without transformation of the historical practices and ideologies that preserve supremacy and "White…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Race, Equal Education, Ideology
Popkin, Susan J.; Galster, George C.; Temkin, Kenneth; Herbig, Carla; Levy, Diane K.; Richer, Elise K. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
Between 1992 and 1996 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) settled a number of legal cases involving housing authorities and agreed to take remedial action as part of court-enforced consent decrees entered into with plaintiffs. These housing authorities faced significant obstacles that impaired their ability to comply swiftly…
Descriptors: Public Housing, Neighborhood Integration, Compliance (Legal), Minority Groups
Tibbitts, Felisa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
This article presents an innovative professional development project, "Facing the Past-Transforming Our Future," developed collaboratively by the Western Cape Educational Department, the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (CTHC), and the US-based teacher professional development organization Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO). "Facing the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Jews, Death, War
Rochester City School District, NY. – 1993
This textbook for elementary school children is a history of African Americans from 800 A.D. to 1992 in 24 chapters. Each chapter closes with a review that lists vocabulary words to learn, and offers thinking and writing questions. Some chapters also contain activity sheets. Chapter topics include African origins, black explorers and settlers in…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Education, Black History, Black Influences
Chicago Urban League, IL. Dept. of Research. – 1982
In this report, the Chicago Urban League assesses the Chicago Board of Education's proposed school desegregation plan. The report discusses eleven points of disagreement with plan provisions. The issues raised include: (1) the absence of concrete provisions, especially numerical standards, to ensure that existing black-white separation in Chicago…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Attitudes, Demography
Noboa, Abdin – 1980
An analysis and interpretation of a five-volume study by Aspira, Inc., which examined Hispanic segregation in U.S. schools, presents an overview of the study, general findings, and a summary and conclusions, including recommendations for further study and analysis and general policy recommendations. Segregation trends for Hispanics are discussed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
HENDERSON, VIVIAN W. – 1966
THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO ARE THE MOST DEPRESSED SEGMENTS OF THE ECONOMY AND THE POPULATION, AND IMPORTANTLY, THE EXTENT TO WHICH NEGROES ARE ABSORBED INTO THE ECONOMY WILL DETERMINE THE PACE WITH WHICH THE SOUTH REACHES PARITY OF INCOME LEVEL WITH THE REST OF THE NATION. IN COMPARISON WITH WHITES, NEGROES HAVE GAINED ONLY SLIGHTLY IN INCOME AND…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status
Pearce, Diana – 1980
A research project was conducted based on the hypothesis that metropolitan school desegregation, by removing white enclaves in the schools, has an effect on the way housing choices are made and results in lower levels of housing segregation. By comparing seven pairs of cities that are otherwise similar (in terms of size, region, minority…
Descriptors: Advertising, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Smith, Ralph V.; And Others – 1968
An extensive survey was conducted in 1965 by a team of white and Negro interviewers in an application of ecological theory to a study of the support relationship between the community and its school system. Findings are based upon interview data from a probability sample of 931 respondents selected from the population of persons 21 years of age…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Support
