ABSTRACT
Marian Yarrow and her colleagues describe the interpersonal relationships that develop between Negro and white children during the "equal status contact" of a two-week camping session. Equal-status contacts are perhaps more likely to involve competition. In the integrated projects only one-third as many women spontaneously expressed prejudice in the interviews as in the segregated projects. In two housing projects Negro and white families were assigned to apartment buildings regardless of race; in several other projects different buildings or different parts of the project were used for Negroes and whites. It is perhaps significant that those under 30 were more likely to say they were friendly with blacks and less likely to express fears of racial violence. Many people argue that "in the long run" full integration may be desirable, but that for the immediate and foreseeable, separation is necessary and wise.
