Title: Impact of the Civil Rights Laws
Headings: U.S. Department of Education
Removing Racial Barriers to Educational Opportunity
Removing Gender Barriers to Educational Opportunity
Removing Disability Barriers to Educational Opportunity
Removing Age Barriers to Educational Opportunity

Content: and news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 1, 1998, page 4.] 65 percent of Latino high school graduates (class of 1997) enrolled in college (2-year and 4-year colleges) immediately after their high school graduation. A decade earlier, about 45 percent of Latino high school graduates went on to college without a break in their education. [ Ibid.] 10.5 percent of all college students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional education) were African American in fall 1996. Four years earlier, only 9.6 percent of all college students were African American. [ unpublished data from the survey of Fall Enrollment in Postsecondary Education, 1996.] 8.1 percent of all college students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional education) were Latino in Fall 1996. Four years earlier, only 6.6 percent of all college students were Latino. [ Ibid.]