FromSesame Streetto Prime Time School Television: Educational Media in the Wake of the Coleman Report

students' academic achievement by improving students' self-esteem.This objective aligned with the emerging Black Power movement, which emphasized black control of key public institutions as a way to augment political and economic power.In other words, even though most academics and many politicians believed that the Coleman Report provided incontrovertible support for school integration, a growing number of northern black parents, students, and teachers believed it offered persuasive evidence of the benefits of black-controlled schools designed to meet the needs of a majority black student body.By the end of the decade, northern black conceptions of school integration ranged from hopeful visions of political equality to angry fears of cultural annihilation.As such, it is crucial to understand how black educational activists conceived of school integration and separate, community-controlled schools as two viable strategies for advancing the black freedom struggle during the height of the civil rights and Black Power eras.