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WATTERS, PAT – 1964
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, IS A COASTAL CITY OF THE DEEP SOUTH. IT IS 174 MILES FROM ALBANY WHERE THOUSANDS OF NEGROES MARCHED TO JAIL IN THE SUMMER OF 1962 PROTESTING INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS. AT THE SAME TIME BRUNSWICK WAS QUIETLY NEGOTIATING THE DESEGREGATION OF ITS LUNCH COUNTERS. WHILE RACIAL TENSION BROKE OUT IN OTHER NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES,…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Civil Rights, Community Support, Desegregation Methods
COLES, ROBERT – 1963
A 2-YEAR RESEARCH STUDY INVOLVING 6- AND 7-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN IN NEW ORLEANS AND 16- AND 17-YEAR-OLD ADOLESCENTS IN ATLANTA SOUGHT TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CHILD PSYCHIATRY ON THE EFFECTS OF DESEGREGATION ON THE LIVES OF BOTH WHITE AND NEGRO CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. NEGRO CHILDREN WHO INITIATE COURT-ORDERED DESEGREGATION IN…
Descriptors: Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Integration Studies, Intergroup Relations
WATTERS, PAT – 1964
A COMBINATION OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, CIVIC PRIDE, AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS MOVED CHARLOTTE, N.C., IN THE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER OF 1963 TO DESEGREGATE VOLUNTARILY ITS LEADING HOTELS AND MOTELS, 90 PERCENT OF ITS RESTAURANTS, AND ITS FIRST-CLASS MOVIE THEATERS. PREVIOUSLY THE CITY HAD DESEGREGATED ITS AUDITORIUM AND COLISEUM, LUNCH COUNTERS,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Black Leadership, Civil Rights, Community Involvement
HANNER, MRS. PHILIP; AND OTHERS – 1961
A HANDBOOK HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR REPORTERS WHO ARE COVERING THE DESEGREGATION OF ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO INFORM THE PRESS OF THE EFFORTS MADE BY CITIZENS IN THE FIGHT TO KEEP PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN. A MAJOR PORTION OF THE GUIDE IS DEVOTED TO A DETAILED, CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BACKGROUND PERIOD (1954-61) LEADING TO SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Support, Desegregation Methods, History
MUSE, BENJAMIN
IN VIEW OF ITS HEAVY NEGRO POPULATION AND ITS DEEP SOUTH LOCATION, THE PROGRESS OF MEMPHIS TOWARD THE ELIMINATION OF RACE DISCRIMINATION IS REMARKABLE. CONSPICUOUS, THOUGH STILL TOKEN, STRIDES TOWARD DESEGREGATION AND EQUALITY IN SCHOOLS AND EMPLOYMENT HAVE BEEN MADE. GREATER PROGRESS HAS BEEN SEEN IN THE DESEGREGATION OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. A…
Descriptors: Biracial Committees, Black Organizations, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Download full textResearch Atlanta, Inc., GA. – 1973
On February 22, 1973, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Atlanta Board of Education filed a compromise desegregation plan with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. If the Court approves, this compromise will constitute the final desegregation plan for the Atlanta Public…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
West, Paul; And Others – 1973
This research is intended to be a factual analysis of desegregation data. Section I contains historical information on school desegregation in Metro Atlanta. Included are details of the various school desegregation suits as well as information concerning the extent of desegregation in the City of Atlanta school system and the racial composition of…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
