Leonard L. Hayes III, the director of the Desegregation Policy Studies Unit of the Institute for Services to Education remarked that “The Separate Problem is an excellent source for those persons in search of additional documentation of the efforts put forth by the North to deny blacks access to educational opportunities during the early part of the twentieth century."

Hayes III added that "the author’s effective use of the case study methodology is laudable….although she did not make sufficient use of the rich vein of oral historical tools…” He found the writing style to be “lucid” and well organized except for interchangeably using the terms “Negro,” “black,” and “Black.

[2] Ronald D. Cohen of the Indiana Magazine of History wrote that the book "heavily influenced by recent revisionist interpretations."

Cohen finds that the book relies on newspapers and public documents in such a way that the details of segregation are generalized.

"[3] Robert G. Sherer from The American Historical Review finds that “both her [Mohraz] end and her means present theoretical and organizational problems.”[4]