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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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14 and social status of the Negro family in Burlington, as revealed through several objective indices, what are the problems of adjustment in the community as indicated by the attitudes of this group? The following table summarises the responses of the Negro family heads with respect to those problems. It is not claimed in this report of findings that the attitudes reported represent, in all cases, the actual situations which exist in the community. Some of the responses, undoubtedly have their source in actual experiences which the families had other probably stem from indirect sources, from what associated in the Negro community have experienced from what has been communicated through hearsay, and from what the families consider to be the expected behavior for the actual social situations involved. But in any case, the attitudes are significant as a set of symptoms of the actual difficulties faced in community situations, insofar as the Negro group is concerned. It will be valuable to contrast the attitude responses reported here against the findings of later sections on employment, schools and public accommodations, based upon a direct coverage of agencies and organizations themselves. The general attitudes of the Negro family heads are highly favorable toward the city at large and toward those relationships involved with neighborhood, school and police situations. Only about half of the families indicated that they had children in school; so that the extremely high degree of favor accorded with schools should be qualified by this factor In addition, only four of the Negro family heads were member of the Parent Teachers Association. Though this evaluation is not as realistic as it might be with greater and more intimate contacts with the school situation,
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14 and social status of the Negro family in Burlington, as revealed through several objective indices, what are the problems of adjustment in the community as indicated by the attitudes of this group? The following table summarises the responses of the Negro family heads with respect to those problems. It is not claimed in this report of findings that the attitudes reported represent, in all cases, the actual situations which exist in the community. Some of the responses, undoubtedly have their source in actual experiences which the families had other probably stem from indirect sources, from what associated in the Negro community have experienced from what has been communicated through hearsay, and from what the families consider to be the expected behavior for the actual social situations involved. But in any case, the attitudes are significant as a set of symptoms of the actual difficulties faced in community situations, insofar as the Negro group is concerned. It will be valuable to contrast the attitude responses reported here against the findings of later sections on employment, schools and public accommodations, based upon a direct coverage of agencies and organizations themselves. The general attitudes of the Negro family heads are highly favorable toward the city at large and toward those relationships involved with neighborhood, school and police situations. Only about half of the families indicated that they had children in school; so that the extremely high degree of favor accorded with schools should be qualified by this factor In addition, only four of the Negro family heads were member of the Parent Teachers Association. Though this evaluation is not as realistic as it might be with greater and more intimate contacts with the school situation,
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