The poor and the minorities of this nation continue to be subjected to clearly inequitable policies, programs, and conditions. These factors originate in segregated schools, prevalent practices of educational grouping and tracking, and in low teacher expectations regarding students with low scores on standardized tests. (JC)

Reports on three recent histories that challenge three historical misconceptions about racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S. (Author/AM)

The hypothesis that minorities that are segregated from the majority group in a mixed society are less likely to be assimilated than those who are integrated is assessed. Data from 139 Texan cities with large Hispanic populations are used. The results suggest that factors other than segregation determine ethnic identification. (Author/VM)

Analyzes White Southern attitudes toward desegregation from the 1950s to the 1980s and traces how support for segregation of the races gradually decreased. Argues that supporters of segregation now comprise an inconsequential fringe group and suggests that Southern racial relations are today no better or worse than those in other regions. (KH)

Rochester, New York was praised as they voluntarily moved toward systemwide school integration--but failed in the attempt. (DM)

The enforcement of a requirement of racial dispersion of school population in one region of the country is morally, politically, and legally an untenable position. Busing is a shorthand term symbolizing something else which must be faced. (DM)

The criticisms of busing cannot be answered by refusing the Federal support needed to make school desegregation successful, or by failing to support enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment. (DM)

Paper delivered at the Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders Memorial Lecture on March 24, 1971 at Chatham House, London, England to members and guests of the Institute of Race Relations, London. (RJ)

Asserts that it is time to clarify one's personal differences with and differentiation from those who use similar methodologies and rise by similar expertise, and time to examine one's own exploitation and one's cooperation with those who exploit the masses of Americans. (RJ)

A forecast of actions of the Supreme Court in the seventies based upon the impact of the Court's decisions on the American educational system in the sixties. (MF)

Examines Black occupational mobility and factors that have influenced the growth of the Black middle class since the 1960s. Argues that the Black middle class occupies a fragile market position because Black mobility depends on fluctuating government policy rather than on free market factors. (Author/MJL)

Describes the efforts of Thomas Hocutt, a Black student, to gain admittance to the University of North Carolina in 1933. The case was lost, but it laid the basis for outlawing racial segregation in public schools through Brown v Board of Education (1954). (CMG)

Indian segregation in 11 cities in the Southwest in 1970 and 1980 was less than the segregation of either Blacks or Spanish Americans. Indian segregation declined between 1970 and 1980, but the decline was least in cities experiencing the greatest growth in Indian population. (Author/AM)