A History of Affirmative Action in the U.S.

• Supreme Court Cases:
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• EEO Laws and Regulations
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Executive Order 11246
• Marquita Sykes, The Origins of Affirmative Action (NOW)
• Affirmative Action: History and Rationale (Report to President Clinton from his staff)
• Stephen Cahn on the history of affirmative action (1995)
• Laws applying to affirmative action in educational institutions (AAD project)

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Carl Gutierrez-Jones
Department of English
University of California, Santa Barbara
e-mail: carlgj@humanitas.ucsb.edu