The recent calls for the restructuring of secondary education provide little assurance that the educational situation of Blacks and other minorities will improve. Through such efforts as the College Board's Educational Equality Project, Blacks must take a leadership role in demanding equality as well as excellence. (KH)

The discretionary aspects of disciplinary practices coupled with the cultural differences between Black students and their teachers largely explain the racial disparity in disciplinary measures. Many of these differences, based on new frames of cultural and social reference established by Blacks during the 1960s, have not yet been adequately…

The nature of legal argument, including judicial decisions, puts severe limits on the educational advances that can be expected by Black Americans through litigation. The Brown decision, for example, has been a mixed blessing, and the Bakke case shows that the Court is unwilling to support a class-based remedy for discrimination. (KH)

Outlines some of the achievements of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the leading organizational advocate for Blacks in the U.S. Chronicles the key court cases won by the NAACP in the field of education since 1948. (RDN)

Reviews efforts by Black Americans to gain social justice and equality through education. Traces the civil rights movement from the 1954 Supreme Court Brown decision and the Montgomery (Alabama) bus strike and examines the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on education as an instrument of social justice. (AOS)

Briefly sketches legal concepts that deprived Blacks of equal educational opportunity before the 1954 "Brown" decision. Holds that twenty-five years after "Brown's" implementation, the "separate but equal" mentality still operates in the United States. (GC)

The author discusses the effects of the Brown decision in terms of the following: his personal experiences, the status of Black colleges, the meaning of equality in education, and areas of concern for the future. (Author/MC)

The churches have contributed to the failure of school integreation, both by being indecisive in their verbal support for it and by failing to integrate church-related schools. (MC)

As a result of the Brown v Board of Education court decision, thousands of educational positions which would have gone to Blacks in the South have been lost, although gains in school positions for Blacks have occurred in other parts of the country. (RLV)