25 years of a Changed Racial Policy

Report card on equality in US 25 years after ending quotas. Only colleges still strive for diversity and only the percentage of black professionals has shown a dramactic increase.


1978 -- 2003
Life expectancy of a black child Five years shorter than a white child Six years shorter
Risk of a black woman dying during childbirth Three times as likely 3-1/2 times as likely
Infant mortality rate for blacks Twice that of whites Slightly more than twice
Black families below the poverty line Four times the number of white families Unchanged
Unemployment rate for black adults Twice that of whites Unchanged
Unemployment rate for black teens Three times that of whites Unchanged
Median income of a black family 60 percent of a white family's 66 percent
Lawyers and judges 1.2 percent black 5.1 percent
Physicians 2.0 percent black 5.6 percent
Engineers 1.1 percent black 5.5 percent
College and university professors 2.6 percent black 6.1 percent
Percenage of Population 11.5 percent black 12.3 percent

Statistics from the Christian Science Monitor.