A personal account of a white woman's attendance at an all-black university. (SB)

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a women's suffragist, organizer, and Black educator. She was the first Black woman member of any board of education and served as president of the National Association of Colored Women, the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the NAACP, and the Women's Republican League of Washington, D.C. (Author/GC)

Suggests that languages (non-standard vs. standard English), as well as "riving, jiving, and playing the dozens", derive from socioeconomic conditions and social settings and not from black faces. (Author)

Notes that black people's acceptance of their physical characteristics is just the beginning of emancipation. Also, insinuations about blacks' intellectual inferiority must be rejected. (Author/AM)

The 50 black superintendents in the nation constitute just over one-fourth of one percent of the 16,000 school superintendents. (AM)

Even in a time when many of their rights were restricted, Blacks distinguished themselves in two areas--the church and the schools. They built and maintained a viable community life focused around these two institutions. (Author)

The concerns of this project are the following: to determine what black parents want from public schools, what the attitudes of black high school students are toward public schools, and what the attitudes of teachers and administrators are toward the parents of black children and toward their education. (Author/AM)

The complete text of a memorandum dated July 22, 1970 that was submitted to President Nixon by the writer, who served as a Special Advisor on campus affairs during the period May 8 through June 30, 1970. (JM)

While the Catholic Church did some positive things with respect to Negroes during the post-Civil War period, these efforts did not change the social plight of blacks, nor did the church use its own moral force to combat the anti-Negro bias of its own people. (EH)

Using recent opinion data, describes and analyzes the views of white America on black contributions to American history, and evaluates white reactions to Black Studies courses in schools. (JM)

An interview with Dr. Nathan Hare, reprinted from College and University Business," May 1970. Discusses the need for extending the Black Studies approach to mathematics and science, the problems of administering such programs, and the relation of Black Studies to Black Power ideologies. (JM)

Revised version of a speech made at the Consultation for Educational Justice in New York City. Proposes that the issue in black education is control of the educational process, and that the quality of education is determined by who runs the schools--ideally, the black communities themselves. (JM)

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)

The adjective "brown" is more accurately descriptive and less emotionally laden than "black." Americans should adopt "brown" for use as a racial referent to people of African descent. (KH)