Word: steps
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...college graduates by 1985. Today there are about 550,000 Negro college graduates in the labor force. The current rate of Negro college attendance will not bring us close to the goal. About 15 percent go to college, less than half of the rate for whites. A very major step-up in college attendance and completion is needed if Negroes are to continue their fine recent rate of progress in professional and technical jobs. Some of the present progress is based on the elimination of Negro underemployment, of upgrading educated Negroes into the kinds of jobs for which they were...
Without attempting to develop specifics, let me touch on just a few areas in the education field. What steps could be taken to substantially increase the percentage of Negrose who complete high school? First, we have learned from experimental studies that school dropouts cannot be prevented in large number in the last year or two before the drop-out. The act of quitting is only the final step of a long drama of failure on the part of the school system to devise a meaningful and valuable curriculum for the student. In the Elementary and Secondary Education...
...Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should step up their active search for Negro applicants...
Then, before police or his aides could step in, a half dozen muscular Negro teen-agers rushed for the Mayor, hoisted him onto their shouders, and carried him through the throng. The angry crowd broke into cheers. "I'm alright, I'm alright," Lindsay shouted above the applause as a flying wedge of policemen came to his rescue...
This is why integration is a word rarely heard among the younger leaders--they are tired of hearing that they must improve themselves so they can "step up" into the white society. This is why the poverty program, aimed at the "culturally deprived," is regarded by the nationalists as just another tool of the white man. In a conversation over why I, the White Student Liberal, was tutoring in Watts, a nationalist said, "Your job is not to tell those kids that they're as good as you are, but to prove that you're as good as they...