Some educators, especially those engaged in minority studies, are historically disenchanted with textbooks. They have sought alternative sources of information in multimedia. To test the effectiveness of a multimedia approach to change students' attitudes and increase factual knowledge, the Lawrence, Kansas, schools designed an experiment to compare learning in two sample groups, one using a textbook approach for a six-week unit on ethnic studies and the other using a multimedia approach. Pre- and posttest results showed no significant differences in cognitive and effective learning between the two samples. This monograph consists of four parts: (1) a history of minority dissatisfaction with textbooks and instructional media; (2) a description of the methodology used in the Lawrence experiment; (3) results of the experiment; and (4) an appendix of the measurement tools used in the study. (EMH)