Title

Creating equal : my fight against race preferences

Description

A story of the author's life and his struggles with "America's racial divide." As a member of the University of California Board of Regents, the author was drawn into the controversy surrounding affirmative action and "finally concluded ... that this phrase was merely a polite euphemism for an entrenched system of race preferences that psychologically damages its alleged beneficiaries and unjustly discriminates against its real victims."--Jacket.

Identifier

869608

189355404X

Creator

Connerly, Ward

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2000

Program air date: April 30, 2000

Publisher

Encounter Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Extensive notes on front papers and title page concerning the author's childhood, family life, his personal background and education, the racism he experienced and witnessed as a child, the I-200 campaign, his work for the Republican Party, Connerly's friendship with Pete Wilson, the affect of Affirmative Action on college enrollment and drop-out rates, his work against Affirmative Action, the Civil Rights Movement, Connerly's time on the Board of Regents at the University of California, his college lecture tours, Connerly's dealings with the Bush family, his famous critics, Connerly's meeting with Al Gore at the White House, Arnie Steinberg, and TV ads for proposition 209. Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book.

Subject

"Connerly, Ward, 1939-"

"University of California (System). Regents--Biography."

"African American political activists--Biography."

"Political activists--United States--Biography."

"Race discrimination--California."

"Race discrimination--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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