Following are the members of the Committee on the Status of Black Americans:
Robin M. Williams Jr. (chairman), professor of social science, emeritus, Cornell University
Hubert M. Blalock Jr., professor of sociology, University of Washington
Lee P. Brown, chief of police, Houston
John H. Franklin, professor of legal history, Duke University School of Law
James L. Gibbs Jr., chairman of the department of anthropology, Stanford University
Bernard R. Gifford, vice president of education, Apple Computer Inc.
Nathan Glazer, professor of education and sociology, Harvard University
Beatrix A. Hamburg, director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government, Columbia University
Joel F. Handler, professor of law, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Hauser, director of the center for demography and ecology, University of Wisconsin
James S. Jackson, professor of psychology, University of Michigan
Stanley Lieberson, professor of sociology, Harvard University
Michael Lipsky, professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eleanor H. Norton, professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center
Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of social psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
James Tobin, professor of economics, emeritus, Yale University
Phyllis A. Wallace, professor of management, emerita, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy J. Weiss, professor of history and dean of the college, Princeton University
William J. Wilson, professor of sociology and public policy, University of Chicago
Raymond E. Wolfinger, professor of political science, University of California, Berkeley
The following served on the panel on education: Mr. Hauser (chairman); Mr. Blalock; Mr. Gifford; Mr. Glazer; Jennifer Hochschild, professor of politics and public affairs, Princeton University; Lyle V. Jones, director of the Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; John U. Ogbu, professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.