Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, which challenges the constitutionality of racial quotas, and perhaps even the concept of affirmative action, has generated widespread concern and interest from such disparate groups as the Congressional Black Caucus and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith...
...state Supreme Court upheld the ruling that the special admissions program constitutes a racial quota system and violates the 14th amendment. In addition, when the regents conceded they could not prove Bakke would not have been admitted in the absence of the special program, the state supreme court ordered U.C. Davis admit him, reversing the trial court's ruling on that point...
...richly talented, complex man. He is now remembered by many as a sort of martyr-hero, this one-time darling of the pre-War theater and concert world who spurned wealth and acclaim abroad to return home in the early 1940s and take up the grueling, uphill fight for racial equality and justice in his native America. But here, at 60, Robeson is thinking back to his childhood; to what it was to grow up in lily-white, aristocratic Princeton, New Jersey, in the small enclave of black laborers and domestics that centered largely around his father's church...
...parents in this group enrolled their children in parochial schools. Other families moved out of the city altogether. Almost all the children who left the system were white. This changed the enrollment significantly. Minorities quickly became the majority in the school system, making a mockery of the court-ordered racial guidelines...
...result of the busing order imposed on Boston, the quality of education dropped. The tax rate jumped $56, making it the highest in the United States. Racial tensions increased to alarming levels. Moreover, according to studies of the first two years of busing, court guidelines for desegragation could not be effectively implemented, and many schools remained segregated...