This video features proceedings from the 39th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention on August 13, 1996 in Detroit, Michigan. The video footage features the second part of a panel discussion by SCLC, NAACP, Georgia State University urban education professors, and other national organization representatives advocating for educational equity and the discontinuation of tracking in schools. Tracking is the practice of using test scores to measure student intelligence and separating students into learning groups. This video begins with a speaker emphasizing using education for learning identity, purpose, and direction. Dr. Asa Hilliard of Georgia State University argues that tracking encourages the stereotype of Blacks' genetic inferiority to whites, displays malpractice of using tests to measure intelligence, and a political and systematic tool to oppress Blacks. At 00:44:35, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery concludes the panel by emphasizing that the miseducation of children is a violation of human and civil rights and giving his definition of integration: "Integration is not the systematic movement of all things black to all things white, but it is the emphatic movement of all things wrong to all things right". The first half of this panel discussion can be found in another video asset (auc.199.00015): http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00015. At 00:52:51, the recording switches to non-relevant footage of outdoor scenes (golf course, etc.).
