When discussing college student voice, the historical narrative has generally focused on large-scale student activism as the definitive medium through which students expressed their beliefs. However, this inevitably leaves more subtle forms of student expression left uninterrogated, specifically in the South, and other areas of the country where…

Although the United States Supreme Court declared segregation in education under law unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the public high schools in Jackson, Mississippi, would remain segregated until 1970. The present study examines the effects of this social climate on the high school band programs in…

EXCERPTS FROM NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES SHOW THAT THE LONG RANGE EFFECT OF THE RECENT RIOTS IN MISSISSIPPI ON THAT STATE'S ECONOMY WILL BE PROFOUND, PROLONGED AND PAINFUL. STATE OFFICIALS FIND IT HARDER TO ATTRACT NEW INDUSTRY TO THE STATE. THE RATE OF NEW PLANTS BEING BUILT HAS DECREASED. CORPORATIONS DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THE RISK OF BEING…

Using Mississippi and North Carolina as cases, the author examines progress made toward the desegregation of enrollments in public colleges and universities. Enrollment trends are analyzed in the context of contemporary social, legal, and educational policy initiatives intended to desegregate dual systems of public higher education. Despite more…

This condensation of a B.A. thesis presented to the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, attempts to determine if demographic factors influence white resistance to unitary school integration, and what the role of white leadership is. (Author/JM)

Describes a study of the achievement of four hundred and fifty first graders in the Gulfport, Mississippi Separate School District in connection with a federally financed project to study the effect of improved Educational conditions. (JM)

This is a report of school desegregation in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1964, five years before ordered to do so by a federal judge, Greenville initiated its own plan for majority-to-minority crossover of students on a "freedom of choice" basis. The school board also initiated a voluntary teacher transfer program that met with…

The purpose of this report is to examine what effect the increase in the number of schools obtaining unitary status has had on the racial balance of schools that were previously under court order. Specifically, the report examines whether levels of integration tend to erode as consent decrees are lifted. To that end, the Commission collected data…

This special report, the fourth of a series commenting on the progress of school desegregation in the South, traces the turn of events since the 1968 report. The influence of the coming of the Nixon administration, the "go slow" approach to desegregation in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health, Education and…

This study examines the effect of school desegregation upon instructional content, teacher qualifications and assignments, and teacher and student attitudes in social studies classes. Questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observations were the techniques employed to gather data from 85 Negro and white teachers, 120 Negro and 95 white students,…

In order to study the impact of integration on the racial balance of Mississippi school districts, questionnaires were mailed to 147 District School Superintendents resulting in a 95 percent response rate. School enrollments by race for 1970 were furnished for 90 percent of the districts by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare along…

During a two-week period from September 14-26, 1970, the National Education Association Task Force visited a total of 70 school districts in Mississippi and Louisiana. Team members met with teachers, principals, parents, lay citizens, and civil rights and other community groups, and, wherever possible, they visited schools and conferred also with…

This paper explores the comparative utility of institutional and personal qualities in explaining cognitive outcomes in self-esteem, racial attitudes, and political and social involvement in the context of desegregated schools. Three kinds of schools in a Mississippi county were studied: public desegregated, public segregated black, and private…

Changes in financial support patterns in four southern states over the course of major school desegregation were examined for the period from the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. The states included in the study were Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, those States with the largest proportion of black children in the country. The…

Examines the history of higher education for African-American Mississippians from the nineteenth century, focusing on the 1987 "Ayers v. Mabus" desegregation case, which charged the maintenance of separate and unequal systems of higher education in Mississippi. Finds that desegregation is a remedy for segregation but not for educational…