Conditions under which Black women have lived are examined. The Puritan ethic and economic conditions led to a view of Black women as immoral temptations. Later this was reenforced as Black women were given only menial jobs and excluded from participation in women's movements. Still, Black women have made significant contributions. (VM)

The existence of Black colleges has been threatened by the lack of uniform desegregation standards and by conflicting federal policies. Attention should be focused on existing constitutional doctrines to provide a uniform analytical framework for assessing the extent to which individual Black colleges should be maintained. (Author/MLF)

For more than 40 years, federal courts have attempted to end segregation at the college level. A landmark case, Adams v. Califano (1977), deals with racially dual systems of higher education. Benefits of the case's ruling include: (1) an improvement in educational opportunities available to Black students; and (2) that desegregation should occur…

The Martin Luther King case established a legal mandate requiring school systems to identify, assess, and remedy educational problems associated with the use of nonstandard English dialects, casual or otherwise, by minority group children. (Author/MLF)

In a case concerning a Michigan public school and several students who spoke Black English, the court concluded that the school board had not taken appropriate action to overcome the language barrier which impeded the Black students' equal participation in the instructional program. (JN)

A three-judge panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously that civil rights groups could not sue the federal government to force it to take steps against states or colleges that may be breaking the law. (MLW)

This article gives an overview of significant civil rights cases in Georgia since 1954. Focused on are cases involving racial discrimination in higher education. (Author/MC)

Presents the recent Supreme Court Opinion No. 81-202, "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al., v. Claiborne Hardware Company et al.," on a case which arose from a boycott of various Port Gibson, Mississippi, businesses. Appended is a 1969 speech about the boycott by Charles Evers. (GC)

This article analyzes the nature of the reading process and its relationship to the language processes of Ebonics-speaking children. (Author/MC)

While not abandoning the goal of integration in the schools, poor blacks should aim toward obtaining a high quality education, obtaining equal education whatever the setting. Available from William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14209. (IRT)

Students speaking Black English should not be singled out or isolated. Their dialect, like that of others whose English is accented, can contribute to the cultural richness of American classrooms at the same time that the schools are teaching these students to read and write standard English. (Author/MLF)

In a lawsuit involving classroom and literary racial epithets, the Ninth Circuit Court remanded the racial-harassment claim, not the book-removal claim. The ultimate outcome awaits trial; the court's Solomonic decision needs further testing. Meanwhile, the "N" word is a no-no for teachers and students, but not necessarily for books. (MLH)

The Supreme Court decision banning school segregation is presented in this article. (MC)

The propriety of a district court's decision favoring the merger of a predominantly White state university and a predominantly Black state university, to desegregate them, is discussed. Alternatives and the role of Black institutions are considered. (Journal availability: Editor-in-Chief, College of Law, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, $3.00.)…

Litigation concerning Alabama's vestiges of a racially dual system of higher education has advanced to an appeal by the plaintiffs to the United States Supreme Court alleging that the decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals establishes a dual standard for black judges and white judges hearing desegregation cases. (MLF)