Preface / Thomas V. Tonnesen -- Introduction / Bernard R. Boxill -- Is civil rights legislation irrelevant to Black progress? / Bernard R. Boxill -- Universal education, Blacks and democracry: the expansion and contraction of educational opportunities / Kenneth S. Tollett -- Public policy and the African-American family / Wade W. Nobles -- Residence and race: 1619 to 2019 / Karl e. Taeuber -- Inequality and African-American health status: policies and prospects / Leith Mullings -- Blacks in the U.S. military: trends in participation / Richard O. Hope -- Racial party under laissez-faire: an impossible dream / David H. Swinton -- Black politics: mobilization for empowerment / Ronald W. Walters -- Integration or separation: beyond the philosophical wilderness thereof / Winston A. Van Horne.