A major theme of this report is that civil rights problems of American Indians are particularly complex because Indians can claim special rights deriving from historical circumstance. Special legislation will be required to ensure their civil rights as citizens. Social change on the part of the Indian minority and white majority must also occur to…

The Foster Grandparent Program was started in Nashville, Tennessee, as a demonstration program under the Office of Economic Opportunity; it was designed to help senior citizens support themselves by acting as grandparents to children who do not have their own. At Clover Bottom Hospital and School for the Retarded Child, 13 foster grandmothers work…

Forty-seven books, articles, and reports published between 1960 and 1969 are cited in this bibliography about high-risk education for Appalachian youth. The titles are grouped into 4 categories: (1) general information sources, (2) characteristics of disadvantaged students, (3) college admissions and guidance, and (4) other related sources. The…

Aspirations and expectations held toward marriage by a sample of Negro and white adolescent girls from 3 all-rural East Texas counties were compared. The primary objective of the study was to determine (using Chi-Square analysis techniques) the extent to which racial differences existed in desired age of marriage, desired and expected number of…

The Federal Government, through its Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, has served approximately 80,000 rural youth through its various training programs. The Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and the "Concerted Services Approach" are 2 programs which have had particular impact on rural areas. The need for these programs is readily…

Research directed toward providing information to be used to improve the social environment of the disadvantaged has been prejudiced by various concerns and power plays in funding agencies. These agencies have a mixture of motives and concerns, efficiency, surveillance, fund allocation, and adherence to national programs. On the other hand,…

This is an anthropological study of a black ghetto in Washington, D.C. The focus of the book is on the nature of ghetto culture and its relationship to mainstream American culture. The author contends that the ghetto has developed a unique culture of its own which co-exists with aspects of mainstream American culture. The discussion dwells on the…

A random sampling of 398 heads of households was selected from eight community center areas out of a total of 1,136. Three hundred eighty-four of this group were interviewed. Two hundred fifty-seven of those interviewed claimed to be acquainted with the CAP, and 127 claimed not to be, while 14 refused to be interviewed. Findings indicate that the…

An examination of city demography and enrollment trends is the basis of this report which presents a long range plan stipulating locations and capacities of new schools, and costs of proposed construction. Recommendations include a proposed plan of metropolitan cooperation in education, a system reorganization plan, a transportation plan for…

From a comparative economic viewpoint, does regular employment secured through temporary subsidized Special Work training afford the publicly supported individual any marginal advantage over his welfare status? A study of 279 Aid to Needy Families with Children (ANFC) recipients was conducted to address this question. The median annual dollar…

The past decade has seen a number of studies of how the poverty incidence (the percentage of families below the poverty line) of certain demographic groups changes in response to economic growth. The question of whether regional economic growth trickles down to rural and rural poor families was examined by statistically estimating the relationship…

The shortrun (1962-1966) economic impact of a tissue paper mill in Pickens, Mississippi, a town of under 1,000 in a depressed rural area with a predominance of poor Negroes, was analyzed. The tissue mill began in a building formerly occupied by a North Carolina furniture manufacturer. Initial financing came from the Area Redevelopment…

The major purpose of this study was to determine whether data from the 1970 Census could be used to account for at least 70 percent of the variance in grade-level achievement scores in the elementary schools of a big city, without including variables directly denoting race or ethnicity. This goal was attained when it was found that a regression…

The Philadelphia Student Health Organization Summer Health Project had as a purpose to collect information relevant to the following categories: (1) descriptions of new kinds of cooperative arrangements; (2) descriptions of features of community organizations; (3) description of the health status of poor populations; (4) evaluation of the present…

One of the strategies that researchers have adopted for coping with anticipated suspicion and resistance among low-income respondents is the employment of interviewers who are like the respondents in race/ethnicity and SES. Surveys that employed them tended to have larger samples, larger proportions of low-income respondents in the sample, and…