ABSTRACT
The data on the self-concepts of Afro-American students in three nonsouthern cities are actually the replication of an extensive study of the effects of school desegregation on the self-concepts of Afro-American students in three southern cities which began in the early 1970s. The subjects in the southern study included 1720 white and Afro-American junior high school students from 22 schools. Five were segregated white schools, schools. The major finding from the data analysis of the southern schools showed that Afro-American students in segregated or racially isolated minority (RIM) schools scored significantly higher on the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale than Afro-American students in desegregated schools. Although there were significant findings regarding southern white students, the intent of this report is to focus on the variables for self-concept and self-esteem of Afro-American children in RIM schools. The study contravened previous beliefs about the damaged self-percept of Afro-American youth, although other studies have confirmed the findings of the Powell-Fuller study.
