The integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978 : architects of affirmative action / Miguel Espinoza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Espinoza, Miguel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--California--Los Angeles.

School integration.

California--Los Angeles.

University of California, Los Angeles. School of Law--Admission--History--20th century.

University of California, Los Angeles.

University of California, Los Angeles. School of Law.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.

Summary:

"In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large cohorts of minority students under non-traditional standards, and sending them into the world as emissaries of integration upon graduation. Together, these students bent the arc of educational equality, and the LEOP served as a model for similar programs around the country. Drawing upon rich historical archives and interviews with dozens of students and professors who helped integrate UCLA, this book argues that such programs should be reinstituted (and with haste) because affirmative action worked"--Back cover.

Contents:

A revolutionary's attitude

Affirmative programs must be initiated

Diversity arrives

Summer of '68

A rising tide

Continued expansion

Battle lines

In the shaddow of Bakke

End of an era

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 18, 2017).

ISBN:

979-82-16-30380-0

1-4985-3163-6