THE GUIDE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS. THE FIRST IS ENTITLED--"THE GENERAL PROPOSITIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS," A LIST OF THOSE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROPOSITIONS OR FINDINGS WHICH HAD GREATEST RELEVANCE TO DESEGREGATION. THE SECOND, "RESEARCH ON DESEGREGATION," EVALUATES THE MAJOR RESEARCH APPROACHES IN THE LIGHT OF PAST AND PRESENT…

The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the events which developed in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Evanston, Illinois during the transitional period in which the public schools in each community moved from segregated to desegregated systems. One of the school districts resisted desegregation and was forced with a court order to desegregate its…

This bulletin gives some of the results of an attitude survey on school desegregation in Riverside and Redlands, California. Children and parents were questioned. The results indicate that parents and students in Riverside reacted very positively to three years of integrated education. Anglo parents felt that their children were not having more…

Emphasizes that teachers are an intrinsic part of the desegregation process. For example, teachers play a primary role in determining whether or not quality education will exist in desegregated/integrated schools. (Author/AM)

Author sees phasing out of black colleges as suicidal and suggests instead cooperative programs between predominantly white and black institutions. (HS)

Includes results of a national survey showing sharply contrasting views on school segregation. National political developments and the progress of school desegregation with specific emphasis on 13 Noethern and Southern states are reported. (DM)

Examines past conflicts and questions whether the Nixon Administration will carry out its plan to desegregate Southern school districts by the promised September, 1970 date. (DM)

Deals with charges of corruption, involving losses to the school system of $10 to $15 million from 1977 to 1979, that have tarnished the reputation of the Dallas Independent School District. (WD)

Used archival, interview, and demographic data to conduct a historical analysis of school desegregation and its consequences in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1965 through 1997. Findings show the massive white flight to nonpublic schools and adjoining suburban districts and the failure of efforts to reverse this trend. (SLD)

Reviews the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) and examines key ongoing issues in school segregation. "Brown II" (1955), which addressed remedies, mandated neither a timetable nor an immediate eradication of school segregation. Because of its focus on equal education opportunities,…

The 1954 "Brown" decision and its 1955 enforcement decree were merely keystone events in a decade-long effort to replace South's elaborate system of legal segregation with type of de facto segregation found in northern, western, and midwestern cities resulting from well-defined racial barriers between neighborhoods. The traditional…

This paper, by the former president of West Virginia State College (WVSC), responds to criticisms that racial integration following the Brown decision has had a negative impact on the quality of the school. Statistics are presented to show that West Virginia State's enrollments were declining seriously at the time of the Brown decision, and that…