Vanport led Portland and Oregon in integrating blacks.
It has also met most of its goals for integrating blacks into suburban St. Louis County schools.
The military's experience with integrating blacks and women offers some lessons in effective approaches for changing a culture that strives for an esprit de corps.
Conditions leading up to the crises about integrating blacks and women into the military bear striking similarities.
Between 1975 and 1977 Leiken worked as a community organizer, helping to integrate blacks and whites in Dorchester neighborhoods.
He believed in finding a way to integrate blacks, equally, into society.
An earnest analysis of women in the military advocates that the Pentagon use the techniques that helped integrate blacks into the services.
The Army effectively applied President Harry Truman's policy of integrating blacks.
The first - President Harry Truman's 1948 mandate to integrate blacks fully - has been, as Gutmann notes, a glowing success.