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...make up the bulk of the black tourist market. But a large number of black travelers are as likely to be bus drivers, waitresses or assembly-line workers. Many blacks now have better-paying jobs and often, as in millions of white families, both husband and wife work. The Census Bureau reported in 1970 that one-quarter of all U.S. black families earned more than $10,000 annually and that the black median income increased 50% during the 1960s, compared with only a 35% increase for whites. Banks and other loan agencies have made it easier for blacks to borrow...
Volumes I through V of the Plan are nearly done. They survey the success of previous planning efforts, planning philosophies, raw census data, traffic flow, and the visual environment of the Square...
Greer, 30, a revisionist historian and an administrator at City University of New York, studied school records, surveys and census reports dating from 1890 and concluded: "School performance seems consistently dependent upon the socioeconomic position of a pupil's family." For 70 years, public schools have failed to teach about 40% of their pupils, Greer writes, though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over...
Volumes I thought V of the Plan are nearly complete. They review the success of previous planning efforts, planning philosophies, raw census data, traffic flow, and the visual environment of the Square...
...last child is picked up. The Lambda report also assumed that existing school-district lines would be retained, except in cities where a white majority in the city schools could be achieved only by exchanging students with nearby suburbs.* Even then, little new busing would be required. Researchers fed census figures, road maps, busing schedules and other data into a computer. They found, says Project Director George E. Pugh, that "in most cases where the courts ordered desegregation, people put together plans that were highly inefficient, involving more busing than was necessary...