What are the educational problems and needs of Negro youth? Basically the needs of Negro children are the same as those of all children and youth. However, because of the marginal status of these young people, there are additional needs which must be met if they are to have an equal opportunity to realize the general purposes of society and education. What these general purposes are have been stated by different persons and groups over the centuries but consideration will be given here to the pronouncements of the Educational Policies Commission' of the National Education Association in 1938 because of the prestige of the educational leaders who make up this body. After reviewing previous statements of general aims of education in America, this group presented four great groups of goals: 1. The Objectives of SelfRealization; 2. The Objectives of Human Relationship; 3. The Objectives of Economic Efficiency; and, 4. The Objectives of Civic Responsibility.