ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1955, PARENTS AND GUARDIANS OF 21 NEGRO CHILDREN WHO WERE REFUSED ADMISSION TO NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FILED SUIT. EARLY IN 1956, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORED A DESEGREGATION WORKSHOP. PARTICIPANTS REPORTED THAT THE COMMUNITY SEEMED POSITIVELY ORIENTED TOWARD THE SUPREME COURT DECISION OF 1954, BUT THAT THERE WAS NO…

In 1966 when initial planning for desegregation in Peoria, Illinois began, minority students were concentrated in 9 of Peoria's 39 schools. Twenty of the city's schools had white enrollments of more than 98%, indicating the most minimal percentage of minority students in more than half the city's schools. Four schools were totally white. The…

The current boom in magnet schools (or multiple option systems) draws strength from three converging trends in education in the last decade: (1) the search for appropriate educational options to meet the diverse learning needs of children; (2) the desire for greater parental participation in the educational process; and (3) the search for…

The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Grouping Children in Integrated Schools." For the full abstract of the institute proceedings, see UD 010 390. For other resource manuals, see ED 036 568-ED 036 573, and UD 010 390. (RJ)

Three surveys, conducted at the University of Alabama from its desegregation in 1963 until 1969, permit an assessment of initial changes in the integration attitudes of deep-South university students. Rapidly increasing acceptance of blacks was found in the four major areas examined: general societal areas of conflict, social distance on campus,…

The purpose of this study is to discover the effects of pupil race and racial balance in schools on educational achievement. A brief review of pertinent background factors and related research literature is presented, followed by an explanation of the study itself. Subjects were one hundred and sixty black and white students in the Tacoma,…

The purpose of the study is to provide information concerning the self esteem of blacks and whites under conditions of integrative and segregative simulated work groups. Subjects were 96 undergraduate students, half black and half white, who performed three laboratory tasks. Ziller's self esteem scales were used to measure the self esteem of…

The results of this research indicate that in the early 1960s racially mixed elementary schools raised both black and white achievement if nonwhites were a large minority, but they depressed black achievement if nonwhites were a small minority. Racially mixed secondary schools did not have much effect either way. (Author)

This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on changes in community opinion during the desegregation process. Responses to various questions regarding desegregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school system in North Carolina by Black and White community members are summarized. (Author/EB)

This article addresses the question of whether desegregated students have mobility-related attitudes which differ from segregated students. The analysis shows little difference between the two groups. (Author/AM)

The data presented in this article suggest that recent migration patterns are contributing much less to white flight than has been suggested by many previous investigators. Differences in segregation between cities are more closely related to birth rate differentials than they are to white flight. (Author/AM)

The Intergroup Relations Specialist may be the focal point of change within the educational system as it attempts to relate to the needs of different ethnic groups, social classes, school desegregation, school community relations, and the elimination of cultural blindness. (JD)

Concludes that desegregation (ultimately integration) actually helped to improve North Chicago educationally and financially. (Author/AM)

Concludes that the positive effects of desegregated schools for minority students are dependent on the quality of the school to which they are bused. (Author/AM)

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)