Describes science teaching in Rhodesia as beset with limitations in the quality of students, in student motivation, in the number and quality of teachers, in the Rhodesian environment, and in the science syllabuses themselves. (Author/GS)

Asserts that analysis of Mary Terrell's articles, reveals that she succeeded in breaking down myths that justified and perpetuated lynchings and the peonage system in the South, and that she pointed out adverse effects of discrimination and the need for fairness and justice as they related to the treatment of black people. (Author/JM)

A look at landmark court decisions on school desegregation. (Editor)

Offers general legal guidelines for extablishing procedures to facilitate minority enrollment in higher education. (EH)

To resolve the basic question of what is unconstitutional school segregation, lawyer Edelman suggests bombarding the citadel of de facto segregation with a legal strategy that expands the definition of de jure segregation to include acts that produce segregation in fact. (Editor)

Text of the remarks by the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, befor e the State and Urban Boards Program of the National Association of Realtors in Fall, 1973, concerning enforcement of the law against housing discrimination. (Author/SF)

Revision of a paper prepared for discussion at the Columbia University Seminar on Population and Social Change, December 1967.

Remarks taken from the author's new book, "Overlive: Power, Poverty and the University, and presented to the annual convention of the American Association of Junior Colleges (49th, Atlanta, Ga., March 3-7, 1969).

Most measurements of racial and ethnic segregation, particularly comparative analyses across cities, have relied on the Index of Dissimilarity ("D"). Recently, however, it has been demonstrated that cities with different racial compositions also have different expected values of "D" under a random distribution of whites and…

A disproportionate number of black Americans continue to be ill-housed despite government efforts to overcome this problem. Five factors contribute to this: government policies, which often perpetuate unequal housing markets; the disproportionate number of minority families who are renters rather than homeowners; residential segregation and…

Court cases dealing with school desegregation have become increasingly complex over the years. The major portion of this paper highlights six of those cases, which provide a picture of the shifting positions of the federal judiciary on the subject. The purpose of the discussion is to allow school administrators to incorporate the current law into…

THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS HAS FOUND THAT HOUSING IS THE ONE COMMODITY IN THE AMERICAN MARKET THAT IS NOT FREELY AVAILABLE ON EQUAL TERMS TO EVERYONE WHO CAN AFFORD TO PAY. TO A LARGE EXTENT, THE WASHINGTON, D.C., METROPOLITAN AREA IS RACIALLY SEGREGATED IN ITS HOUSING PATTERN, WITH DISCRIMINATION AS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTING FACTOR. THE…

SOCIAL CONTROLS SUPPORTING THE BIRACIAL SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES ARE PRIMARILY LEGAL AND ARE OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE PREVAILING MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS. THE NEGRO PROTEST IS NOT ONLY AGAINST WIDESPREAD DEPRIVATIONS, BUT ALSO AGAINST RELATIVE DEPRIVATIONS OR BARRIERS DESIGNED TO PREVENT THEM FROM ENJOYING CERTAIN RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES…