Abeson, Alan, Ed. (1972). A Continuing Summary of Pending and Completed Litigation Regarding the Education of Handicapped Children. Reported are summaries of 27 legal cases substantiating the right of handicapped children to equal protection under the law including the right of being provided with an education, and full rights of notice and due process in relation to their selection, placement, and retention in educational programs. Nineteen of the cases concern the right to an education, five the right to treatment, and three placement. Relevant facts concerning the plaintiffs are examined as well as the court pronouncements. Plaintiffs for the right to education seek such measures as a declaration that the provision of unequal amounts of tuition money depending on the category of handicap is unconstitutional, and a permanent injunction requiring educational programs for the retarded in schools, institutions, hospitals, and homes with all costs being charged to the responsible public agency. Cases about treatment protest such elements of institutional life as overcrowding, questionable medical research, lack of… [PDF]

Foxley, Cecelia H. (1972). Recruiting Women and Minority Faculty: An Information Handbook. This handbook provides information on recruiting women and minority group candidates for faculty positions. The first 3 sections give a brief overview of the laws and regulations regarding equal employment opportunity, outline some affirmative action guidelines for recruiting staff, and respond to questions related to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. The last 2 sections provide information on recruiting women faculty (percentages of women doctorates in the various fields, locations of women graduate students in the last stages of completing graduate degrees, and names and addresses of women's caucuses, committees and professional associations), and recruiting minority faculty (minority enrollments in graduate schools, predominantly black colleges and universities, and national minority group organizations). (Author/CS)… [PDF]

Koontz, Elizabeth Duncan (1972). The Best Kept Secret of the Past 5,000 Years: Women Are Ready for Leadership in Education. Fastback Series, No. 2. The contributions of women to American educational leadership from colonial times to the present have been important but often ignored. According to the author, women have historically suffered from prevailing negative attitudes ranging from masculine fear of economic competition to the age-old theories regarding the mental, physical, and emotional competency of women. The author emphasizes that the time has come for education to dispel sexism and to train people for true economic, political, and social equality. (RA)…

Devol, Kenneth S., Ed. (1976). Mass Media and the Supreme Court: The Legacy of the Warren Years. Second Edition. This book provides a collection of major cases and selected reprints of important articles from leading law journals, about obscenity, censorship, rights of privacy, and other First Amendment problems. The 50 Supreme Court decisions and 17 interpretive articles examine the legal activism of the Warren and Burger courts, from the 1960s through the middle 1970s. Decisions during this period increased the importance of media law to those interested in mass communication, political science, sociology, and other such disciplines. Chapters discuss First Amendment provisions and the Supreme Court justices, prior restraint, postal censorship, obscenity, motion-picture censorship, libel, right of privacy, trial by newspaper and television, public access to the media, and the legacy of the Warren court. (KS)…

Phay, Robert E.; Rogister, George T., Jr. (1976). Searches of Students and the Fourth Amendment. Journal of Law and Education, 5, 1, 57-73, Jan 76. Discusses how the constitutional prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure applies to searches of students and their property by school officials, as indicated by recent court decisions. Most of the cases examined were decided by state courts, since federal courts have not generally been involved in this area. (JG)…

Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. (1976). Procedures for Student Discipline. IAR Research Bulletin, 16, 2, 1-2,8, Jan 76. Discusses recent federal court rulings setting minimal procedural requirements governing the administration of student discipline by school officials. (JG)…

(1976). AIPRC Jurisdiction Task Force Holds Hearings. American Indian Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 2, 4, 20-3, Apr 76. The Jurisdiction Task Force of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC) held a series of hearings on jurisdictional issues/problems confronting Native American governments today, and the following four topics emerged as primary areas of concern: Child Placement; Public Law 280; Water Rights; and Hunting/Fishing Rights. (JC)…

Lawson, Michael L. (1976). The Navajo Indian Irrigation Project: Muddied Past, Clouded Future. Indian Historian, 9, 1, 19-29, Win 76. …

Thernstrom, Abigail M. (1979). The Odd Evolution of the Voting Rights Act. Public Interest, n55 p49-76 Spr. The Voting Rights Act was a noble response to the callousness of those who permitted and perpetrated the disenfranchisement of Southern Blacks. However, the political polarization of the society along racial and ethnic lines may be its main accomplishment. (Author)…

Blum, Karen M. (1978). From "Monroe" to "Monell": Defining the Scope of Municipal Liability in Federal Courts. Temple Law Quarterly, v51 n3 p409-26. Examines opinions of lower federal courts that have struggled with problems revised by assertions of municipal liability based on section 1981, the Fourteenth Amendment, and pendent state law claims. Concludes that Monell will compound confusion and inconsistency of lower court opinions on municipal liability. Available from Business Editor, 1719 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122; $8.00 annually. (Author/PKP)…

Harbison, John L. (1978). Thomas Paine: Eighteenth Century Feminist. Social Studies, 69, 3, 103-7, May/Jun 78. Unlike Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams, Thomas Paine was a feminist, a revolutionary in his time for the cause of women's rights and their liberation from servility. While others considered women second-class citizens whose only place was in the home. Paine argued for the political, legal, economic, and social rights of women. (Author/BC)…

Current, Gloster B. (1978). The 69th–The Post-Bakke Convention. Crisis, 85, 8, 259-76, Oct 78. At the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1978 Annual Convention, speeches and discussions were dominated by the effect of the Bakke decision on future college admissions and affirmative action programs. (Author/MC)…

Campbell, Ena (1978). Equality by Default: Women in Dual Roles. Intellect, 106, 2393, 307-9, Feb 78. The struggle for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the American Constitution is one of the most controversial issues of this era. Discusses the changing role of women amidst a fast-changing society, the styles of those opposing the women's revolution, the debate over women as persons, women in dual roles, and the implications of ERA for the world and the future. (Author/RK)…

Sherman, Mitchell (1978). Equal Employment Opportunity: Legal Issues and Societal Consequences. Public Personnel Management, 7, 2, 127-34, Mar-Apr 78. The legal issues that have led to today's affirmative action programs are reviewed and interpreted. Several studies are reviewed that illustrate the complexity of the equal employment opportunity issue and point out some areas for research that would aid organizations in successfully integrating their work force. (Author/MLF)…

DeCecco, John P. (1977). Studying Violations of Civil Liberties of Homosexual Men and Women. Journal of Homosexuality, 2, 4, 315-322, Sum 77. A description of the present methodology for studying possible violations of the civil liberties of homosexual men and women is provided. Presented at the 1976 American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Author)…

Powell, Cheryl Riley (1977). Help Is Available. College Press Review, 17, 2, 4-11, Win 77-78. Discusses problems for college publications advisers and student editors involving the issues of prior restraint, firing, suspension, and control of funding; describes court cases that have pertained to these issues. (GW)…

Critelli, Ann (1978). The Status Offender In Georgia. Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, 22, 1, 38-44, Jan 78. Presents information about the Juvenile Court Code of 1971, Title 24A of the Georgia Code and how it is used to deal with status offenders through community agencies. (HLM)…

Berkey, Curtis (1976). John Collier and the Indian Reorganization Act. American Indian Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 2, 7, 2-7, Jul 76. …

Coleman, James S. (1977). Population Stability and Equal Rights. Society, 14, 4, 34-6, May-Jun 77. Argues that any policy of voluntary busing should, to bring population stability as well as equal rights, encompass the metropolitan area as a whole, removing the suburbs from their protected status. (Author/JM)…

Buechler, Steven M. (1987). Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1870-1896. Signs, v13 n1 p78-97 Fall. The Woman Suffrage Movement experienced ideological changes so that earlier and later suffragists had different views. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert was one reformer who first criticized female socialization and the system of separate spheres. Later her views became more sentimental and she idealized the traditional role of women. (VM)…

McLemore, Leslie Burl (1986). Protest and Politics: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1965 Congressional Challenge. Negro Educational Review, v37 n3-4 p130-43 Jul-Oct. Describes actions taken by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge White dominance on the ballot for congressional seats in 1965. The challenge failed, for a number of reasons, but helped end an era of all-White political party domination and precipitated the growth of grass-roots political groups. (KH)…

Walters, Ronald (1985). Imperatives of Black Leadership: Policy Mobilization and Community Development. Urban League Review, v9 n1 p20-41 Sum. Reviews Black political strategies of the 1960s and 1970s. Calls for a further shift in strategy, in light of the fact that the most urgent and primary task of Black leadership is the internal reconstruction of the Black community through strengthening both its common frame of reference and common resource base. (Author/GC)…

Covert, James R.; Magsino, Romulo F. (1984). Denominational Thrust in Education: Some Issues Affecting Canadian Teachers. Canadian Journal of Education, v9 n3 p243-60 Sum. Notes that increasing support for denominational education in Canada challenges educators to examine the issue before serious conflict reaches the courts. Notes that denominational education is affecting teachers' professionalism and human rights. Explains that because existing court judgments are contradictory, conflict resolution is better achieved in other ways. (SB)…

Colby, Ira C. (1985). The Freedmen's Bureau: From Social Welfare to Segregation. Phylon, v46 n3 p219-30 Sep. Describes the philosophical and political underpinnings of the Freedmen's Bureau, a Federal agency created after the Civil War to assist and protect freed Southern slaves. Argues that, despite some positive results, it exemplified the nation's ambivalence toward a free black community and only contributed to the further entrenchment of racial segregation. (KH)…

Hendrick, Irving G. (1983). Stare Decisis, Federalism, and Judicial Self-Restraint: Concepts Perpetuating the Separate but Equal Doctrine in Public Education, 1849-1954. Journal of Law and Education, v12 n4 p561-85 Oct. Traces the history of the United States Supreme Court "Brown v. Board of Education" decision that overturned 58 years of the infamous "separate but equal doctrine" confirmed in "Plessy v. Ferguson." (MLF)…

Helle, Steven (1984). Judging Public Interest in Libel: The "Gertz" Decision's Contribution. Journalism Quarterly, v61 n1 p117-24 Spr. Traces the public interest concept in libel to the time of "Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.," which supposedly rejected the concept, and beyond, demonstrating that the problem many free press advocates associate with the decision is really a consequence of the public interest test those same advocates cherish. (FL)…

Mehra, Achal (1983). Sanctions for Reporters Who Refuse to Disclose Sources in Libel Cases. Journalism Quarterly, v60 n3 p437-44,508 Aut. Notes that the courts have specific sanctions under the "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure" to ensure discovery in libel and invasion of privacy cases. Examines media-related cases in which courts have used these sanctions and relates them to nonmedia cases. (FL)…

Kilson, Martin (1976). Whither Integration?. American Scholar, 45, 3, 360-73, Sum 76. Focuses on the integration of the Negro into the mainstream of cultural and social development in the United States. Particular attention was spent on the problem of getting white people to translate agreement on integration in principle into integration in fact. (Author/RK)…

(2000). Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Lesson Plan]. This lesson plan teaches students about the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. Students listen to a brief biography, view photographs of the March on Washington, and read a portion of King's "I Have a Dream" speech. After studying Dr. King's use of imagery and allusion, students create original poetic phrases about freedom and illustrate them with symbols representing the forms of freedom that have yet to be realized in the United States. After its 6 lessons, students will have: (1) learned about the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr.; (2) observed and studied King's use of figurative language in his "I Have a Dream" speech; and (3) become aware of inequities that still exist in the United States. Intended for grades 3-5, the plan notes subject areas covered (language arts, literature, United States history and social studies), time required to complete the lesson, skills used and taught in the lesson, and the standards developed by professional… [PDF]

Jackson, Jesse L. (1973). Don't Get Mad; Get Smart!. J-NAWDAC, 37, 1, 18-26, F 73. This address (to a joint session of the annual conventions of the NAWDAC and the ACPA in Cleveland, 1973) discusses the author's concerns about contemporary America. He discusses his opinions about racism, the fight for black equality, abortion, and other social issues in our country. The emphasis is on the position of blacks in our society. (EK)…