This report consolidates U.S. Census information from 1900-2000 to illustrate population changes over the 20th century. The population more than tripled, from 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000. It grew increasingly metropolitan each decade. In 1900, half of the population was under 22.9 years old. By 2000, half of the population was over…

Summarizes the pattern of ghetto formation and expansion, and the concomitant white flight to the suburbs, and describes various plans which have proven effective in integrating neighborhoods. (SF)

The geography of schools in Mississippi have undergone many phases of change during the past three decades. Racial segregation in schools and patterns of resistance to change have been influenced signigicantly by residential segregation at the local level and by the racial composition of the population at broader scales. (RJ)

Reports a study investigating the relationship between selected social characteristics--age, sex, occupation, education, and regional residence--of black Americans and their satisfaction with the pace of school desegregation. (Author/JM)

Statement by the president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing to the Select Committee on Educational Opportunity, United States Senate, August 25, 1970. (JM)

Article based on speech delivered to NAFSA Conference on "The Asian Student" at University of Washington, March 7, 1969.

1980 census data for the Saint Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area indicated (1) no change in central city desegregation and only a modest decline in suburban segregation; (2) rapid Black population growth in suburbs with low segregation indexes (signifying a possible racial turnover); and (3) repetition of central city segregation patterns in the…

A study of desired residential mobility among residents of San Francisco's Chinatown generally confirms the thesis that confinement to a first settlement enclave is due to constraints on choice, and abandonment of this area occurs with increased economic status and greater choice availability. (GC)

The relation of racially segregated schooling to segregated housing has been, since Brown v. Topeka, a subject of increasing political and legal concern. Research on White flight, resegregation, and housing desegregation must continue, since after 30 years of desegregation, we still know little of whether it helps to integrate housing. (Author/LC)

Examined mass media coverage of research conducted in 1975 by James S. Coleman and others, which suggested that court ordered busing caused increased White flight, thus promoting greater residential segregation. Found that the White flight thesis was reported as a scientifically documented fact, despite the unavailability of published evidence and…

Examines some of the arguments used to support the view that residential segregation of ethnic and racial groups is necessarily disintegrative. Suggests that pluralism should receive greater attention as a model of residential segregation. (Author/JLF)