Finding Niches: Desegregated Students Sixteen Years Later

  • Attending suburban schools reduced High School dropout rates, increased adult contacts with whites socially and increased the number of blacks choosing to live in interracial housing (male).
  • Male participants had fewer difficulties with police and perceive less discrimination in colleges and in employment.
  • Female participants were less likely to have a child before age 18.
  • Desegregated male students are considerably more likely to succeed in college.