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Waldo, Everett – Civil Rights Digest, 1971
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, Racial Segregation
Bannon, John – Civil Rights Digest, 1977
Notes that, for the foreseeable future, the de jure-de facto distinction in school segregation will be used to allow and legitimize segregation in the nation's schools. The court's decision in the Detroit, Pasadena, and Austin school desegregation cases will make this clear. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Desegregation Litigation, Racial Discrimination, School Desegregation
Harris, Rick; Hartog, Jack – Civil Rights Digest, 1979
Presents evidence which was not part of the original evidence in the court case in which a White steelworker challenged Kaiser Aluminum's selection of two Black workers for a special job training program. Kaiser's long history of racially discriminatory hiring practices is documented. (GC)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Sikorsky, Igor I, Jr. – Civil Rights Digest, 1972
A-95 is the designation of an instructional memorandum circulated by the Federal Office of Management and Budget Control which authorizes various State and regional agencies to review and comment on all applications for Federal funding. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Community Zoning, Federal Aid, Racial Discrimination
Hill, Herbert – Civil Rights Digest, 1974
A critical analysis of the failure of apprenticeship outreach programs and hometown plans to eliminate patterns of racial discrimination in employment in the construction industry. (EH)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Cox, Archibald – Civil Rights Digest, 1974
An analysis tracing the repercussions and problems raised by the Brown decision, with respect to the use of constitutional litigation as an instrument of social reform. (EH)
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Racial Discrimination, School Desegregation, Social Action
Freeman, Leslie – Civil Rights Digest, 1978
The employment practices of most employers still result in the underutilization of female and minority workers. One of the major reasons is the lack of enforcement of affirmative action regulations. Some of the problems of enforcement have been tackled in new and innovative ways by the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Law Enforcement
Lytle, Clifford M. – Civil Rights Digest, 1977
Within the past few years the courts have made significant inroads challenging the idea that the private sector is beyond the reach of the law. The focal point in eroding this doctrine of immunity has been an ancient relic of law that Congress passed immediately following the Civil War. (Author)
Descriptors: American History, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, History
Yetman, Norman R.; Eitzen, D. Stanley – Civil Rights Digest, 1972
Discusses the results of a sixteen year survey of collegiate and professional basketball in terms of several aspects of the athletic world alleged to be racially biased-recruitment policies, the assignment of playing positions, performance expectations, and rewards. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Athletics, Bias, Civil Rights, Competitive Selection
Cox, Clinton – Civil Rights Digest, 1977
Discusses the different press coverage given homicide cases when the victim is black and when he is white, and cites examples to argue that "the skewed homicide coverage...is just one way the papers carefully structure reality along racial lines comfortable to them." (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Crime, Law Enforcement, News Reporting
Carty-Bennia, Denise – Civil Rights Digest, 1978
This article shows that the opinions filed in the Bakke case reveal important differences among the Justices of the Supreme Court in their perceptions, reasoning, and conclusions about almost every issue raised. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Equal Education
Kohn, Janet – Civil Rights Digest, 1978
What the Court did in the Bakke case was to demonstrate that, like the society around it, it is deeply split on the issues presented and unable to formulate a clear approach to the affirmative redress of our heritage of racial discrimination. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Equal Education
Kranz, Peter – Civil Rights Digest, 1973
A narrative of the author's experiences in attempting to bring a white racist speaker before his integrated class on black-white conflict at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. (JM)
Descriptors: Conflict, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations
Eitzen, D. Stanley; Yetman, Norman R. – Civil Rights Digest, 1977
Examines three aspects of the athletic world alleged to be racially biased; the assignment of playing positions, reward and authority structures, and performance differentials. Focuses on the three professional team sports where blacks are found most prominently; baseball, basketball, and football. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. – Civil Rights Digest, 1972
The material for this article by the executive director of the National Urban League (NUL) is drawn from Abridging the Right to Vote,'' a study prepared by NUL's research department. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Power, Blacks, Civil Rights, Political Power