Going to College and Getting a Good Job: The Impact of Desegregation

  • Existence of exclusionary barriers that restrict equal access to opportunities.
  • Reasonable to think that school desegregation may be able to interrupt that direct minorities into traditional and less promising directions, and produce a wider range of career choices and opportunities.
  • Segregation tends to be perpetuated across stages of the life cycle and across institutions when individuals have not had sustained perceptions of opportunity.
  • Reasons to believe that school desegregation may be linked to equal access for minorities to the structural opportunities for adult success!