Charles V. Willie
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Charles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot
Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University
. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation
, higher education
, public health
, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. Willie identifies himself as an applied sociologist who is concerned with solving social problems. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity.
, the grandson of Louis Willie, a former slave. He received his B.A. from Morehouse College
in 1948 where he was class president, an M.A. from Atlanta University in 1949, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University
in 1957. He resides with his wife Mary Sue Willie in Concord, Massachusetts
. He has three children who have careers in government (James Theodore Willie), architecture (Martin Charles Willie), and academia (Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton).
where he taught from 1950 to 1974. He served President John F. Kennedy as the Research Director of Washington Action for Youth, a delinquency-prevention planning program in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1962-1964. He returned to Syracuse University from 1964-1966. In 1966-67, he was on leave from Syracuse as a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the Harvard Medical School in its Department of Psychiatry as part of the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry. He was chairman of the Department of Sociology and was vice president of student affairs 1972-1974 at Syracuse at the time he left Syracuse to accept a tenured position as professor of education at Harvard University
's Graduate School of Education in 1974. In that year he had apparently been passed over for the position of vice chancellor at Syracuse. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter
appointed Willie and nineteen others (from among over 1,000 candidates) to the President's Commission on Mental Health.
Willie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council
. He has served as vice president of the American Sociological Association
and president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Dr. Willie has also served as a consultant, expert witness
, and court-appointed master in major school desegregation cases in various large cities including the landmark case of Boston
(1974) from which emerged the "Controlled Choice" plan popularized by Willie and Michael Alves and used in Boston for 10 years and Cambridge
for 20 years. Willie has done desegregation planning work in Hartford, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City
, Little Rock, Milwaukee, San Jose
, Seattle, and St. Louis
; and in other municipalities such as St. Lucie County and Lee County, Florida
, and Somerville
, Cambridge
, and Brockton, Massachusetts
.
Willie is a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United State, a former member of its Executive Council and is a past vice president of the House of Deputies
, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops
, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Willie was the first African-American elected as Vice-President of the House of Deputies (1970. Although a lay member of this religious association, he was invited to deliver the ordination
sermon at an irregular service held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Church of the Advocate
, July 29, 1974 in which the first eleven women were ordained as priests in this denomination. Some members of the Episcopal Church were reluctant to acknowledge the priesthood of women, and the ordination was disputed. Meeting in emergency session in Chicago, the House of Bishops invalidated the ordination by a vote of 128 to 9 because the four officiating bishops had "not fulfilled constitutional and canonical requirements." Willie then resigned August 18, 1974 his elected office of vice-president, in protest at the Bishops' failure to uphold the ordination and accord women equal rights. Ms. Magazine designated him a male hero in its tenth anniversary issue (1982). He and forty other men were honored for taking courageous action in behalf of women.
's William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award; in 2005 he was co-recipient with Charles Tilly
of the ASA's W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. In February 2006 Willie received the Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award, the highest award it can bestow on members. A number of colleges and universities have conferred honorary doctoral degrees upon Willie including Syracuse University
, 1992; Haverford College
,2000; Episcopal Divinity School
, 2004; and most recently Emerson College
, 2008. In June 2000 Syracuse University
awarded Willie its George Arents Pioneer Medal, the highest alumni honor the University can bestow.
, socioeconomic status, mental health, religion
, education
, urban communities, and family relations. Bibliographic citations from OCLC Worldcat.
Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 6th ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
Willie, Charles Vert, Steven P. Ridini, and David A. Willard. Grassroots Social Action : Lessons in People Power Movements. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 5th ed. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, 2003
Willie, Charles Vert, Ralph Edwards, and Michael J.,Alves, Student diversity, choice and school improvement. Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
Edwards, Ralph, and Charles Vert Willie. Black power/white Power in Public Education. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.). Controlled Choice a New Approach to School Desegregated Education and School Improvement. Providence, RI; Washington, DC: Education Alliance Press and the New England Desegregation Assistance Center, Brown University; U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1996.
Willie, Charles Vert. Mental Health, Racism, and Sexism. London; Pittsburgh: Taylor & Francis; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
Willie, Charles Vert. Theories of Human Social Action. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc, 1994.
Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Education of African-Americans. New York: London : Auburn House, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael K. Grady, and Richard O. Hope. African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience : Implications for Policy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 4th ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and David J. Hartmann. Long-Range Educational Equity Plan for Milwaukee Public Schools., 1990.
Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
Willie, Charles Vert, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty : Round Two of the Willie/Wilson Debate. 2nd ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1989.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Inabeth Miller. Social Goals and Educational Reform : American Schools in the Twentieth Century. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 3rd ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1988.
Willie, Charles Vert. Effective Education : A Minority Policy Perspective. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Grady, Michael K., and Charles Vert Willie. Metropolitan School Desegregation : A Case Study of the Saint Louis Area Voluntary Transfer Program. Bristol, Ind., U.S.A: Wyndham Hall Press, 1986.
Willie, Charles Vert. Five Black Scholars : An Analysis of Family Life, Education, and Career. Lanham, Md: Abt Books, 1986.
Willie, Charles Vert. Black and White Families : A Study in Complementarity. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1985.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Michael K. Grady. Desegregating Schools in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area : An Analysis of First-Year Effects of a Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program : Final Report. Cambridge, MA: Graduate School of Education. Harvard University, 1985.
Willie, Charles Vert. School Desegregation Plans that Work. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Willie, Charles Vert. Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status : A Theoretical Analysis of their Interrelationship. Bayside, N.Y. General Hall:, 1983.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 2nd ed. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Ivory and Ebony Towers : Race Relations and Higher Education. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, [Aldershot] : Gower (distributor), 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Stages in a Scholar's Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert, Susan L. Greenblatt, and Joint Author. Community Politics and Educational Change : Ten School Systems Under Court Order. New York: Longman, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Caste and Class Controversy. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1979.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Sociology of Urban Education : Desegregation and Integration. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1978.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Ronald R. Edmonds. Black Colleges in America : Challenge, Development, Survival. New York: Teachers College Press, 1978.
Willie, Charles Vert. Black/brown/white Relations : Race Relations in the 1970s. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Books, 1977.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1976.
Willie, Charles Vert. Oreo : A Perspective on Race and Marginal Men and Women. Wakefield, Mass: Parameter Press, 1975.
Willie, Charles Vert. Perspectives on Contemporary African and Afro-American Development. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 1975.
Willie, Charles Vert and Jerome Beker. Race Mixing in the Public Schools. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
Willie, Charles Vert and Arline Sakuma McCord. Black Students at White Colleges. New York: Praeger, 1972.
Willie, Charles Vert, William A. Darity, and Population Reference Bureau. Perspectives from the Black Community. Washington, D.C: The Bureau, 1971.
Willie, Charles Vert comp. The Family Life of Black People. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Student-Teacher Relationships Experienced by Black Students at White Colleges. Syracuse, N.Y:, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Arline F. Sakuma. The Social Life of Black Students on White College Campuses. Syracuse, N.Y: Dept of Sociology, Syracuse University, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert. Church Action in the World; Studies in Sociology and Religion. New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co, 1969.
Willie, Charles Vert. Socio-economic and ethnic areas, Syracuse and Onondaga County, N.Y., 1960 Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Youth Development Center, 1962.
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university...
Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in...
, higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
, public health
Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...
, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. Willie identifies himself as an applied sociologist who is concerned with solving social problems. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
fraternity.
Biographical Information
Willie was born October 8, 1927, in Dallas, TexasDallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, the grandson of Louis Willie, a former slave. He received his B.A. from Morehouse College
Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Wabash College, Morehouse is one of three remaining traditional men's colleges in the United States....
in 1948 where he was class president, an M.A. from Atlanta University in 1949, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
in 1957. He resides with his wife Mary Sue Willie in Concord, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...
. He has three children who have careers in government (James Theodore Willie), architecture (Martin Charles Willie), and academia (Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton).
Career
Willie became the first African American professor at Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
where he taught from 1950 to 1974. He served President John F. Kennedy as the Research Director of Washington Action for Youth, a delinquency-prevention planning program in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1962-1964. He returned to Syracuse University from 1964-1966. In 1966-67, he was on leave from Syracuse as a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the Harvard Medical School in its Department of Psychiatry as part of the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry. He was chairman of the Department of Sociology and was vice president of student affairs 1972-1974 at Syracuse at the time he left Syracuse to accept a tenured position as professor of education at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Graduate School of Education in 1974. In that year he had apparently been passed over for the position of vice chancellor at Syracuse. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
appointed Willie and nineteen others (from among over 1,000 candidates) to the President's Commission on Mental Health.
Willie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council
Social Science Research Council
The Social Science Research Council is a U.S.-based independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines...
. He has served as vice president of the American Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
and president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Dr. Willie has also served as a consultant, expert witness
Expert witness
An expert witness, professional witness or judicial expert is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially and legally...
, and court-appointed master in major school desegregation cases in various large cities including the landmark case of Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
(1974) from which emerged the "Controlled Choice" plan popularized by Willie and Michael Alves and used in Boston for 10 years and Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
for 20 years. Willie has done desegregation planning work in Hartford, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, Little Rock, Milwaukee, San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, Seattle, and St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
; and in other municipalities such as St. Lucie County and Lee County, Florida
Lee County, Florida
Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. Located in southwest Florida, the principal cities in the county are Fort Myers and Cape Coral...
, and Somerville
Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...
, Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, and Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County...
.
Willie is a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United State, a former member of its Executive Council and is a past vice president of the House of Deputies
House of Deputies
The House of Deputies is one of the legislative houses of the bicameral General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America...
, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops
House of Bishops
The House of Bishops is the third House in a General Synod of some Anglican churches and the second house in the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.-Composition of Houses of Bishops:...
, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Willie was the first African-American elected as Vice-President of the House of Deputies (1970. Although a lay member of this religious association, he was invited to deliver the ordination
Ordination
In general religious use, ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination itself varies by religion and denomination. One who is in preparation for, or who is...
sermon at an irregular service held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Church of the Advocate
Church of the Advocate
The George W. South Memorial Church of the Advocate, also known as the George W. South Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church, is a historic church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, July 29, 1974 in which the first eleven women were ordained as priests in this denomination. Some members of the Episcopal Church were reluctant to acknowledge the priesthood of women, and the ordination was disputed. Meeting in emergency session in Chicago, the House of Bishops invalidated the ordination by a vote of 128 to 9 because the four officiating bishops had "not fulfilled constitutional and canonical requirements." Willie then resigned August 18, 1974 his elected office of vice-president, in protest at the Bishops' failure to uphold the ordination and accord women equal rights. Ms. Magazine designated him a male hero in its tenth anniversary issue (1982). He and forty other men were honored for taking courageous action in behalf of women.
Awards
In 2004 Willie received the American Sociological AssociationAmerican Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
's William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award; in 2005 he was co-recipient with Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University....
of the ASA's W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. In February 2006 Willie received the Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award, the highest award it can bestow on members. A number of colleges and universities have conferred honorary doctoral degrees upon Willie including Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, 1992; Haverford College
Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
,2000; Episcopal Divinity School
Episcopal Divinity School
The Episcopal Divinity School is a seminary of the Episcopal Church based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known throughout the Anglican Communion for prophetic teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students have been directly involved in many of the social...
, 2004; and most recently Emerson College
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...
, 2008. In June 2000 Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
awarded Willie its George Arents Pioneer Medal, the highest alumni honor the University can bestow.
Partial bibliography
Willie is the author or editor of over 100 articles and 30 books on issues of race, genderGender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, socioeconomic status, mental health, religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, urban communities, and family relations. Bibliographic citations from OCLC Worldcat.
Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 6th ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
Willie, Charles Vert, Steven P. Ridini, and David A. Willard. Grassroots Social Action : Lessons in People Power Movements. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 5th ed. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, 2003
Willie, Charles Vert, Ralph Edwards, and Michael J.,Alves, Student diversity, choice and school improvement. Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
Edwards, Ralph, and Charles Vert Willie. Black power/white Power in Public Education. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.). Controlled Choice a New Approach to School Desegregated Education and School Improvement. Providence, RI; Washington, DC: Education Alliance Press and the New England Desegregation Assistance Center, Brown University; U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1996.
Willie, Charles Vert. Mental Health, Racism, and Sexism. London; Pittsburgh: Taylor & Francis; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
Willie, Charles Vert. Theories of Human Social Action. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc, 1994.
Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Education of African-Americans. New York: London : Auburn House, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael K. Grady, and Richard O. Hope. African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience : Implications for Policy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 4th ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1991.
Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and David J. Hartmann. Long-Range Educational Equity Plan for Milwaukee Public Schools., 1990.
Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
Willie, Charles Vert, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty : Round Two of the Willie/Wilson Debate. 2nd ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1989.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Inabeth Miller. Social Goals and Educational Reform : American Schools in the Twentieth Century. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 3rd ed. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1988.
Willie, Charles Vert. Effective Education : A Minority Policy Perspective. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Grady, Michael K., and Charles Vert Willie. Metropolitan School Desegregation : A Case Study of the Saint Louis Area Voluntary Transfer Program. Bristol, Ind., U.S.A: Wyndham Hall Press, 1986.
Willie, Charles Vert. Five Black Scholars : An Analysis of Family Life, Education, and Career. Lanham, Md: Abt Books, 1986.
Willie, Charles Vert. Black and White Families : A Study in Complementarity. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1985.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Michael K. Grady. Desegregating Schools in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area : An Analysis of First-Year Effects of a Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program : Final Report. Cambridge, MA: Graduate School of Education. Harvard University, 1985.
Willie, Charles Vert. School Desegregation Plans that Work. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Willie, Charles Vert. Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status : A Theoretical Analysis of their Interrelationship. Bayside, N.Y. General Hall:, 1983.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 2nd ed. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Ivory and Ebony Towers : Race Relations and Higher Education. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, [Aldershot] : Gower (distributor), 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Stages in a Scholar's Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert, Susan L. Greenblatt, and Joint Author. Community Politics and Educational Change : Ten School Systems Under Court Order. New York: Longman, 1981.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Caste and Class Controversy. Dix Hills, N.Y: General Hall, 1979.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Sociology of Urban Education : Desegregation and Integration. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1978.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Ronald R. Edmonds. Black Colleges in America : Challenge, Development, Survival. New York: Teachers College Press, 1978.
Willie, Charles Vert. Black/brown/white Relations : Race Relations in the 1970s. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Books, 1977.
Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. Bayside, N.Y: General Hall, 1976.
Willie, Charles Vert. Oreo : A Perspective on Race and Marginal Men and Women. Wakefield, Mass: Parameter Press, 1975.
Willie, Charles Vert. Perspectives on Contemporary African and Afro-American Development. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 1975.
Willie, Charles Vert and Jerome Beker. Race Mixing in the Public Schools. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
Willie, Charles Vert and Arline Sakuma McCord. Black Students at White Colleges. New York: Praeger, 1972.
Willie, Charles Vert, William A. Darity, and Population Reference Bureau. Perspectives from the Black Community. Washington, D.C: The Bureau, 1971.
Willie, Charles Vert comp. The Family Life of Black People. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert. The Student-Teacher Relationships Experienced by Black Students at White Colleges. Syracuse, N.Y:, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert, and Arline F. Sakuma. The Social Life of Black Students on White College Campuses. Syracuse, N.Y: Dept of Sociology, Syracuse University, 1970.
Willie, Charles Vert. Church Action in the World; Studies in Sociology and Religion. New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co, 1969.
Willie, Charles Vert. Socio-economic and ethnic areas, Syracuse and Onondaga County, N.Y., 1960 Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Youth Development Center, 1962.