Minority leader
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Ranken Technical College in St. Louis, MO, implemented a program in 1984 to attract and retain more African Americans in its courses. The program has succeeded in boosting the African American student population to 158, or 19%, of the school's total student population of 830. The program was supported by Civic Progress, an association of executives and directors of 30 large corporations in St. Louis. The business community was convinced that educating more African Americans would address not only the problem of lack of skilled workers but also a host of social problems caused by unemployment.
Publication Name: The Vocational Education Journal
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0884-8009
Year: 1995
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Blinded by blackness
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Afrocentrism provides a romantic, and largely fictional, history of Africa and its diaspora. However, some strange ideas have sprung up around the notion that every important feature of civilisation, everywhere in the world, originated in Africa. Extreme Afrocentrists maintain that both the ancient Greeks and the biblical Jews were black Africans, and that whites are genetic mutants or throwbacks to the Neanderthals. The belief that African-Americans are a distinct nationality has led to the establishment of Afrocentric schools in predominantly black districts in the US.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Human rights: a national perspective. "If not now, when?"
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In this adaptation of an address before the International Teacher's Conference to Combat Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Violations of Human Rights, Mr. Farmer talks about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and about the difficulty of changing stereotypical images.
Publication Name: Today's Education
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0040-8484
Year: 1981
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