| The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978: Architects of Affirmative Action Contributor(s): Espinoza, Miguel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498531644 ISBN-13: 9781498531641 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $60.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Education - Law | Educational Law & Legislation - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 412 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |