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Blacks in the Educational Establishment

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The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America, by Ballard Allen B., Harper and Row, 1973, 173 pp., $6.95, and
Black Consciousness, Identity, and Achievement: A Study of Students in Historically Black Colleges, by Gurin Patricia and Epps Edgar G., John Wiley and Sons., Inc., 1975, 545 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Faustine C. Jones
Faustine C. Jones*
Affiliation:
Howard University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Winter 1977 , pp. 471 - 479
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Copyright © 1977 by New York University 

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1. One later study, Equal Educational Opportunity for Blacks in U. S. Higher Education: An Assessment (Washington, D. C : Howard University Press, 1976) points out that persistence and distribution are major problems for Black students on white campuses. This analysis also agrees with Ballard's that concentration of Black students in two-year community colleges is not desirable, and that they should seek placement and persistence in four-year degree-granting colleges and universities.Google Scholar