In the United States, Black male students graduate at a significantly lower rate than other student groups, with 38.6% of Black males graduating in six years from four-year institutions and just 21% when time is reduced to four years. This qualitative action research case study used a focus group interview with six participants to understand the…

The purpose of this dissertation was to supply more precise information on the educational values of Afro-Americans in New York City so that policy might better incorporate these values and as a consequence reduce problems causing tensions related to the school system. A chronological chapter organization was used to better understand the changes…

The focus of this dissertation is on two central issues: (1) significant aesthetic theories developed by black scholars which treat the music of black Americans, and (2) the implications which these theories suggest for the development of curricula at all educational levels which treat the music of black Americans. The aesthetic theories selected…

Edward Christopher Williams had a major impact on librarianship, not only as the first documented African American to graduate from a library school, but also as a developer of education for librarians and as an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Ohio Library Association. This study used the historical methodology…

A broad, panoramic study was conducted on the activities and the extent of participation of Black people in various telecommunications fields in the United States. The ways in which media technology can be and has been used as a means for educating Black people were examined. Briefly, the ideological perspective of Black education was discussed…

This is a report on the harassment of black elected officials. It does not address harassment of other minority elected officials, nor of women who are other than black. The report does not address the harassment of appointed public officials or of other black professionals. The report touches only minimally on other proportions of the continuum…

This dissertation explores the participation of 160 black mothers in the educational sector to determine if urban mothers who are active participants in their children's schools feel less alienated than mothers who are less active or inactive. Alienation was measured in terms of three components: subjective alienation, the degree of school…

The focal point of this dissertation was to generate a theory of the black aesthetic in the visual arts. The specific areas investigated were: (1) the black artists' and art students' assessment of their role to their community, (2) the explicit and/or implicit attitudes as perceived by the visual art participants of art instructors and art…

This dissertation is a descriptive study of nine intact black American families. The research focuses on the employed black wife/mother. Based on the cross-cultural approach of the Whiting model for psycho-cultural research which emphasizes the relationship between patterns of childrearing and later personality and postulates that environmental…

This dissertation study of the interaction between black fathers and their kindergarten daughters was conducted in order to increase knowledge about the black father-daughter relationship in the early years. The study was concerned with the effect fathers' reported child-rearing attitudes had on their own and their kindergarten daughter's actual…

The purpose of this study is to analyze and test the effects of desegregation on the self-concept and attitudes of black secondary students in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. In particular, the study investigates the extent to which black students attending public schools in America which harbor "de jure segregation" acquire negative…

This study examines the relationship between public television and the urban community in three cities--New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta--from 1952 to 1975. Analysis of the results indicates that, between 1952 and 1966, there was virtually no interaction between the urban black community and educational television, the predecessor of public…

The purpose of this research was to ascertain whether the process of political socialization as the transmission of the political culture through schools contributes to the persistence of the American political system in the black community. One hundred and sixty black urban and suburban individuals over age 18 comprised the sample population.…

Sociolinguistic attitudes of 160 high school students, 160 parents or other adults, and 40 high school teachers were studied through questionnaires administered in four South Carolina schools. Results indicated that a majority of students and teachers felt that dialect differences interfere with communication in the classroom, but that eradication…

The problem of this study was to describe, according to selected variables, certain personal, educational, and professional characteristics of Black scientists who have earned the doctoral degree in the natural sciences with intent to encourage more Blacks to enter the fields of science. A self-reporting questionnaire was mailed to 500 Black…