... redirect the program slightly. The amicus briefs submitted by the various individuals, groups, and corporations gave the court insight into the extent affirmative action playes in the real world. In Brown v. Board of Education (1954) the Supreme Court began to take on the the racism in America. Ten years later Congress stepped in and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... the Bakke case in 1978, less attention was given to the affirmative action debate. The Bakke case could have been overturned recently when the Supreme Court decided to hear Gratz et al. v Bollinger et al. Here the cou...

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