Cover of When Affirmative Action Was White

Book Audiobook 2016

When Affirmative Action Was White

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Publisher
Tantor Audio
Published
2016
  • History
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights
  • Politics and government
  • Race relations
  • Whites
  • Political and social views
  • Economic conditions

THE SUN HAD BEGUN its downward slope on the evening of June 4, 1965, as President Lyndon Johnson mounted the podium on the main quadrangle of Howard University, the country's most celebrated black center of higher education.