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ERIC Number: EJ488928
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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National Merit Scholarships: A Major Dash of Jim Crow.
Garrigues, George L.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n3 p60-64 Spr 1994
Argues that the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and its corporate sponsors discriminate against black students because the awards are based primarily on standardized test scores and that the separate program for African American students stigmatizes and insults them in a program that recalls the era of separate but equal. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black History, Black Students, Eligibility, Equal Education, Financial Support, Merit Scholarships, Racial Discrimination, Racial Segregation, Scores, Standardized Tests, Test Bias, Test Results, Test Use, White Students
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans; National Merit Scholarship Program
Note: Journal available from CH II Publishers, Inc., 200 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.