Examines the aspects of Stowe's background which impelled her to participate in the education of Freedmen in Florida after her family moved there in the 1860s. Notes that this brief period of educational and religious service to blacks has been little noted by her biographers although it may offer the best measure of her feeling for the ex-slave.…

Proposes that metropolitan colleges be established to give disadvantaged inner city youth the cultural experiences that they would not otherwise have. The metropolitan college is seen "as an institution whose central purpose is the education of young people by any and all means necessary." (Author/JM)

Reviews the history of black education in America, emphasizes its corollary virtues of self-help, self-reliance, and self-determination, and assesses their implications for the future. (Author)

Provides a sociological discourse on how black Americans have related to higher education and educational opportunities during the past two hundred years. (Author)

The black college can best serve its predominantly urban minority community by addressing itself to the problems of the city and developing viable urban related programs. Several types of program approaches and curriculum alterations are discussed from a functional perspective, based on the realities of present resources and future societal needs.…

In a study of 92 black colleges and universities, current programs, trends, and transitions in institutional aims and objectives of Black Studies curricula are reported and recommendations for future action made. (EH)

Early studies generally concluded that Blacks had negative self-concepts. Later studies, however, reached different conclusions. A review of this literature may aid the professional educator in planning intervention strategies. (Author/EB)

The study presented in this article sought to determine if more positive art attitudes, more art knowledge, and higher standards of aesthetic preference might ensue from Blacks studying art examples created by Black artists, rather than those created by White artists. Results confirm the effectiveness of Black exemplars for Blacks' art…

Notes that among the most hopeful developments for school desegregation are the three plans proposed and approved by the Chicago Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education: a faculty integration plan, a student permission transfer plan, and a developing plan for a City-Wide Advisory Committee on School Desegregation. (Author/AM)

Determines how 70 administrators of black public colleges think desegregating higher education would effect the quality and quantity of education received by blacks, the economic benefits to blacks from education, the future faculty, staff, and student body compositions at black public colleges, and the continuation of the black public college as…

Argues that in order to discharge their social and professional responsibility to promote awareness and understanding about the phenomenon of black liberation, black sociologists and educators must both recognize and help others realize that "the practice of racial prejudice and discrimination constitutes an environmental problem of the first…

Argues that if black higher educational institutions are to survive, these institutions must redefine their role (s). Then the majority of these institutions can begin to deal with their most salient task--the development of viable educational programs which have as their focus the equipment of black people with the skills to compete, govern and…

Titles are classified into categories which the writed hopes will be useful to the graduate student in locating research in progress. The name of the student, thesis title, and the graduate institution are given. In most instances, the names of the members of the advisory committee are included. (Author/JM)

Among the challenges faced by the past quarter century of black education are Americanization, desegregation, compensation for those who bear scars of discrimination, the effort to make the public schools relevant to everyday life, and the effort to improve the learning process, particularly teacher involvement. (Author/AM)

Describes four distinct periods in the history of black education in this country prefacing his description by the assertion that America's genius is its ability to weld together a nation of different peoples into a workable, if not efficient, social order. (Author/AM)