Identifies and evaluates some of the major approaches now emerging in teaching black history, as revealedin work shops of more than 500 teachers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County elementary and secondary schools.
In unnamed mid-western city of 180,000 population, students in largely white schools did not have higher achievement scores and self images than students in racially mixed schools.
Through interviews of Negro enrollees and of NYC Counselors, evaluates programs: concludes typical enrollee (17-year old male with 2.6 years high school) is unaffected in "basic attitudes or salient behavior in major life areas."
With "evidence obtained from the study of a single large, Norther urban public-school system" [Detroit] demonstrates "that our public-school system has become an instrument of social and economic class distinctions in American society."
Using Citizens Committee reports of 1958, makes intracomparisons of Detroit school equipment and pupil performances; ranks schools by students' family income level.