Minority Group Literature in Psychology and Education Journals 1952-1973

Public policies and procedures as well as private attitudes and practices toward minorities are influenced in part through research and other scholarly activities. The judicial system, through which significant and often positive changes have occurred (Haveman, 1977), is but one of the many U.S. institutions that recognizes the importance of the social science literature in developing policies and rendering decisions. In his written decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Warren states that whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding (e.g., Brown) is amply supported by modem authority. Thus, this statement acknowledges that the Supreme Court (and presumably our lower courts) considers psychological literature in arriving at decisions. Some social scientists (e.g., Monahan, 1982) take a more extreme position concerning social science research and the law by judging the value of social science research by its relevance to the legal system. As our nation increasingly turns to the courts and other governmental agencies to resolve important social and legal issues, these agencies also turn to the behavioral sciences for information to

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