Education: Black Colleges: the Desegregation Dilemma

Black Colleges: the Desegregation Deilemma

"You can't have a potential black leader who has been educated with Ivy League illusions about the world." Thus Luther Brown, 21, explained why he turned down a scholarship from Stanford University to attend Howard University, which is predominantly black. Certainly few of today's black leaders have Ivy League illusions: the overwhelming majority of them, as well as of black college graduates as a whole, got their degrees from black institutions.

In Jeopardy. But this may not be true much longer. In spite of the notable recent upgrading of such already fine schools as Howard and Morehouse College,...

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