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- Title
"Support for Public Education in a Racially Changing Suburb,".
- Authors
Collins, John N.; Dowries, Bryan T.
- Abstract
In the 1950s, the number of blacks in suburban areas increased by 742,000; in the 1960s, the increase was 2,389,000. In University City, situated near St. Louis, a survey of registered voters indicated that one-half of the blacks had lived there between four and seven years, whereas one-half of the whites had lived there more than 15 years. A survey of the impact of influxes of black middle-class residents on support for public institutions in suburbia indicated an absence of major differences between black and white attitudes toward the community, its public school, and municipal government. Blacks are more sensitive to the tax burden than are whites, as high taxes were cited more frequently by blacks; it was felt that although blacks supported high quality education it would become increasingly more difficult to get the majority vote required for passage of school tax levies in older suburbs such as University City. Finally, most favored a black-white proportion in each school similar to the racial composition of the adjacent neighborhood.
- Publication
Urban Education, 1975, Vol 10, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0042085975103002