Education is one area where awareness of the need for freedom from government control has penetrated black attitudes. The chronic failure of public schools to notably improve dismal test scores and high dropout rates of black children has made it clear to many black citizens of good will that there has got to be a better way.

Polls show strong black support for school choice. For example, in a poll done last year in New Jersey by the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University, 54 percent of blacks expressed support for school vouchers compared with 36 percent of whites.