Abstract
In 1967, President Johnson announced the creation of the Model Cities program to give special grants to cities that developed comprehensive plans enlisting federal, state, local, and private resources to transform blighted areas into useful ones. Dayton, Ohio was among the first cities to have such a program, and it was directed by African American residents from the section known as the inner west. While these community activists instituted important reforms within the schools and the neighborhoods where low income African American families lived, they frustrated efforts to racially desegregate the public schools. Consequently, the story of Dayton s Model Cities Demonstration Project raises the important question whether urban renewal and school improvement can be accomplished while maintaining segregated conditions.
Recommended Citation
Watras, Joseph
(1995)
"Federal Aid, Black Separatism, and the Public Schools,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 8:
Iss.
4, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol8/iss4/4
