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...they espouse violence only defensively, in response to white terrorism against them. He lauds their contribution to black pride. With the same ease, Jackson can endorse moderates; he praises Roy Wilkins for fighting racial injustice "long before I was born." He sees the usefulness of tuxedoed black leaders who attend banquets and charm wealthy whites into donating to black causes. He is willing to work with whites to create a social, if not a political revolution: "The young white radicals who are rebelling against their mamas and daddies because their
...SCHOOL. About 40% of black teen-agers finish high school, compared with 62% of whites. COLLEGE. Black enrollment has almost doubled since 1964, but the relative black total has barely changed: only 6.4% of U.S. undergraduates are black, compared with 5% in 1964. They number 434,000; almost half attend black colleges, mainly in the South. At major integrated universities, perhaps 3 out of 100 students are black...
INTEGRATION. Almost 40% of the South's black children now attend partly integrated schools, compared with only about 1% in 1964. Even so, three-quarters of Southern black pupils still attend schools that are at least 95% black. Outside the South, the proportion is nearly...
With eleven people in the four-bedroom apartment, it is no wonder that the Watkins children yearn to go elsewhere. But where? The older ones can walk to the movies-27 blocks away. The younger ones can attend a Head Start program or either of two nearby elementary schools. But Crane High School, with its athletic facilities, is a mile away and the round trip by bus costs...
...rose from three to five, and off-Broadway from nine to 17. A more impressive development has been the country-wide rise of black theater groups. An issue of The Drama Review (summer 1968) lists 38 such companies. A key problem for these groups is to encourage blacks to attend the theater. The Negro Ensemble Company has achieved gratifying results along this line. In its first season ('67-'68) audiences were 70% white and 30% black. In the two intervening years, the proportion has been exactly reversed...