This study compared the social distance scores of 84 rural high school students attending all-white high schools in an all-white section of Alabama with the scores of 214 students attending an integrated school in a small city. The students from the all-white schools expressed more favorable attitudes toward Negroes (t = 5.27, df = 1/385, p < .001). It was not possible to arrange a re-test at the integrated school, but a re-test at the all-white schools about 6 mo. later involving 91 students showed that attitudes at these schools had improved significantly (t = 3.68, df = 1/385, p < .001).
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