Black and White Colleges

Twenty years ago the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public education. During the years immediately following this decision, national attention was focused primarily upon local and state efforts to integrate elementary and secondary schools in the South. Concern about black higher education has developed slowly. For example, McGrath's (1965) investigation of 123 predominantly Negro colleges and universities was published in the midsixties. Two years later, Jencks and Riesman directed their attention to The American Negro College in the prestigious Harvard Educational Review. Only recently, Bowles and DeCosta (1971) published Between Two Worlds: A Profile of Negro Higher Education, which was sponsored by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. That same year, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences devoted its Summer issue of Daedelus to The Future of the Black Colleges. These publications cogently present the social, political and economic forces which led to the development of black higher education in the United States and the restrictions under which it was forced to operate both prior and subsequent to the Supreme Court order. In addition, current characteristics of black institutions, including descriptions of their faculties and student bodies, are presented with scholarly concern and insight. An analysis has not been made, however, of the changes which occurred in the relative status of predominantly black and predominantly white institutions subsequent to the historic Court decision. This study examines some of the changes which occurred between 1956 and 1968 by comparing matched samples of predominantly black public institutions with predominantly white public institutions on eight measures. Specifically, the following three null hypotheses were tested in this study

Mathematics education · White (mutation) · Higher Education Research Studies · Psychology · School Choice and Performance

• Black Public Colleges and Universities

  Open Access•Frederick Stirton Weaver, Douglas V Davidson et al.•Journal of Black Studies•1992

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• The Predominantly Negro Colleges and Universities in Transition

  Kenneth B O'Brien, Earl J Mcgrath•The American Historical Review•1966

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• Between Two Worlds

  Samuel M Nabrit, Frank Bowles et al.•The Journal of Higher Education•1971

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