Discusses the rejection of popular racist beliefs of the nineteenth century by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in its missionary interactions with American Indians. Identifies the ethnocentrism at that time as distinct from racism and suggests reasons for the commonality of the former and the rejection of the latter. (AEM)

Explores the interpersonal and intellectual relationship between Booker T. Washington and Robert Ezra Park, a White sociologist who travelled, worked, and wrote with Washington before becoming well known as an expert on race relations. Focuses on their voyage to Europe which resulted in the publication of Washington's "The Man Farthest…

Details Lawrence Oxley's work as director of the Division of Work among Blacks from 1925 to 1934. Discusses racial attitudes and legal injustices toward Blacks. Oxley addressed social problems of Blacks such as unfair capital punishment, juvenile delinquency, and lack of social services. (KS)

Discusses attitudes toward and trends in interracial marriage and sexual relations in the United States, both historically and as treated by Chester Himes in his novel "If He Hollers Let Him Go." (GC)

Argues that as part of the objective of bringing economic recovery and social order to Louisiana following the Civil War, Banks made the education system an extension of his labor program. Examines the Free Labor System, the attitudes of Louisiana educational administrators, and the inhibiting nature of Black education. (Author/GC)

This paper examines selected experiences from Frederick Douglass' life which illustrate that he saw himself from a White frame of reference, that his principal associations were with Whites, and that he often assumed White behavior. (Author/MC)

Discusses multicultural education, explaining that it was developed in response to concerns about Americans' anxiety over mass immigration into the country during the early 1900s. Describes five goals of multicultural education, notes methods of and obstacles to multicultural education over the years, and presents implications for contemporary…

The Issues of Race section of the proceedings of this conference of journalism historians contains the following 11 papers: "Dan A. Rudd and the 'American Catholic Tribune,''The Only Catholic Journal Owned and Published by Colored Men'" (Joseph H. Lackner); "Rough Flying: The 'California Eagle,' 1879-1965" (James Phillip…

Press coverage of a sizeable Japanese population in the State of Washington has gone unexamined by mass media scholars. A study of the "Wapato Independent" between the time of the alien land laws in the early 1920s and Pearl Harbor shows that while the Japanese received routine coverage of their daily activities, hostile rhetoric by…

Argues that similarities in the socioeconomic and racial climate and the attempt to refute negative gender and race-inspired images were circumstances that were present in the emergence of single-sex schools for blacks. It examines the worth of such schools in affecting positive social change. (GLR)

Discusses the philosophies of assimilationist liberalism and cultural pluralism as they emerged between 1900 and 1925 in opposition to social Darwinism and the immigration restriction, eugenics, and Americanization movements. (GC)

In her address to the National Congress of Mothers' first meeting in 1897, writer, clubwoman, and abolitionist Frances Watkins Harper appealed to the elite white organizers to support black education. The Congress of Mothers (later the Parent Teachers Association or PTA) became a national organization overnight and by 1930 had nearly one million…

The building that once housed the only primary school for blacks in Lee County, Virginia, is now the Appalachian African-American Cultural Center. Besides preserving Appalachian black history, it hosts an annual Race Unity Day; houses a library of black literature; and sponsors workshops on racism, where blacks and whites can discuss racial issues…

The Emmett Till murder case in 1955 marked the turning point in the coverage of blacks by the white American press. Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was murdered in 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The Till murder was covered extensively in the press, since the two white men charged with killing him were acquitted by an all-white,…

Blacks who settled in the Western United States influenced the region's development in a number of ways, including agriculture, the cattle industry, mining, and business. (MC)