Reviews the author's experiences with white students during courses taught by him in Afro-American history at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, between 1969 and 1972. Concludes that "such black studies as that at Cleveland State University have reached significant numbers of white, specifically ethnic, students." (Author/JM)

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.…

Traces the extent to which black men and women have protested conditions like discrimination, segregation, poverty, the lack of jobs, etc. during the full course of the two hundred years since the birth of the U.S. (Author/AM)

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)

Highlights the past and present plight of blacks and delineates a set of economic imperatives for the economic situation for America's blacks. (Author/AM)

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

Notes that the Afro-Americans' struggle for equality during the second century has been waged on many fronts: education, jobs, housing, public accommodations, voting rights, and human dignity, among others. (Author)

Argues that it is white America that has made 'Roots' a best seller because it is comforting to most white Americans. The book doesn't make most of them feel quilty. It is consistently upbeat and optimistic. It contains much of the old dialect that depicts Blacks as being not-too-bright. It seems to say while some mistakes were made everything has…

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…

Notes that equal educational opportunity, or equal preparation for life, is not simply the removal of legal barriers to non-segregated schooling. Equal educational opportunity requires a commitment of dollars and time and unstinting personal support. (Author/AM)

Notes that the role of this publication is to act as the conscience of the nation, exposing its fault and its shortcomings, calling attention to its abuses and its ommissions and citing its successes and its progress in its sometimes successful, always halting, efforts to bring true equality to all people. (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)

An Assistant Professor of Social Science at Vorhees College, South Carolina discusses what it is like to be a serious Lutheran placed in an Episcopal College, the role of history instruction in statewide school integration, and the Southern Literary Renaissance. (Author/JM)

Problems confronting students of black history are discussed and skills to assist graduate students to overcome these difficulties are suggested. The importance is stressed of mastering techniques of archaeology, oral history, linguistics, anthropology, and sociology for the solution of these problems. (EH)

An exploration of the educational value of the American slave narrative, offering suggestions as to how these materials can be integrated with a variety of classroom activities--music, art, writing, debate, dramatization and dance. (EH)