the education system in the United States. The author states that trends in the racial/ethnic representation of the teaching force reveal the declining numbers of African-American teachers. Statistics show that chronically the numbers of African-Americans teachers have declined. After the First World War II, 79% of African-American women who worked after college graduation were educators (Murnane, Singer, Willet &Olsen, 1991). In the 1950s, one half of all African-American professionals were teachers (Fosters, 1989) and in the mid-1980s, 23% of African-American women who worked after college graduation became teachers. In 1991, the percentage of African-American teachers climbed by 8%.The limited presence of African-Americans is quite evident
