The public school serves as an example of institutional racism which allows a cycle to come into effect: the institution says you are inferior, the individual is judged to be inferior, and the individual finally becomes inferior. (Author/MB)

Strategies for racial integration are reviewed theoretically and examples cited. It is contended that action space, territoriality, and neighborhood have not been adequately considered in their impact on students, parents, and residents. Access to increased mobility should be made equally available to all segments of society. (NH)

Summarizes Federal aid to education proposed and subsequently adopted during the administration of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. (MF)

Analyzes Kennedy's speech before an ideologically hostile college audience and, particularly, his use of the question-and-answer session that followed the speech as a means of reinforcing his arguments and promulgating his value hierarchy. (PD)

The order on implementation of the May 1954 ruling on school desegregation, delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren, is presented. The NAACP's statement on the order, made on the same day, is also given. (MC)

Presents recent citations under various headings, including: history, children, the Black woman, the American scene, Spanish Americans, Indian Americans, poor Whites, other ethnic groups, school organization, teachers, compensatory education, Afro-American studies, innovative approaches, colleges, law and government, school and work, social…

Outlines historical eras in the relationship between Blacks and Whites in the United States. (IRT)

Yvonne Griggs Allen is an African-American elementary principal who grew up in a large, poor family and graduated from a segregated school in Tennessee. She credits her parents for pushing her toward a teaching/administrative career. Allen's first task as principal was transforming a dilapidated elementary school into an inviting facility. Her…

An African counselor relates personal opinions about counseling and Apartheid. Asserts student counselors in South Africa are grappling with the process of extricating themselves from the "old order." As they do so, it is imperative to hear the voice of those who have borne the main brunt of oppression. (KW)

Examined the influence of educational desegregation on cognitive performance. Data from African American adults who had attended desegregated (DS) versus segregated (SS) schools indicated that DS adults had significantly higher mean cognitive scores than SS adults. After controlling for age, gender, years of education, and years in desegregated…

Desegregation efforts of the 1960s and 1970s changed the racial structure of public schools and have persisted intact thorough the 1980s. In a study of 960 desegregated school districts, 87 percent exhibited a segregation score close to the lowest score the district ever attained. No districts have returned to preexisting segregation levels.…