Another counter argument to the abolition of affirmative action is that minorities for the most part are brought up in poor neighborhoods and therefore their education is not as good as most of the white people whose income level is higher and subsequently have better schools. ... The 10 Percent Plan provides the top ten percent of students in poor schools the opportunity to go to many different colleges. This act does not put one race above the other like affirmative action, but simply gives finical aid to the students that deserve to go to school though they cannot afford it. ...

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As Angela gets older and attends high school in New York City she notices many differences between every day life in the south compared to that of the north. ... While attending Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York Davis joined a communist youth group. ... As Davis is singles out purely for her affiliation with alternative organizations her determination is steadily reinforced. ...

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The problem that schools are learning the hard way is the law supports preferential treatment, not quotas. California schools learned this in the 1980's, the late 70's was actually when it was first recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. ... Bollinger involving University of Michigan's law school, and Grotz vs. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted. ... The white race began establishing residency in the suburbs, which...

• Word Count: 1980
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He was educated at a British missionary boarding school at Fort Hare University, from which he was expelled in 1940 for leading a strike with a fellow student. ... After attending grammar and high school locally, King enrolled in Morehouse College (also in Atlanta) in 1944. ... Zecozy Williams, a black woman who intensely supported the bus boycotts, drove all of her friends to work after driving her husband to his job and her children to school. Other black citizens found other transportation alternatives, such as walking. ...

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Third, it reorganized the use of public places, methods of transportation, and schools, so that each would be completely segregated. ... Or alternatively, a non-white could live in South Africa as a worker without access to the full rights of citizenship. ... The final method of segregation was social segregation of public places, methods of transportation, and schools. ... This act tightened the segregation of the school system and reorganized education under the sole control of the government. ...

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Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. ...

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DuBois many times defines himself in The Souls of Black Folk by setting himself up as an alternative to Washington. ... In order to gain entrance to the school, in order to get an education to further free himself, Washington has to clean a schoolroom four times over (or so he claims), so much so that his Yankee inspector was "unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture- (p. 31, Washington) This is Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 2122
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate