The 10 Percent Plan provides the top ten percent of students in poor schools the opportunity to go to many different colleges. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. ... "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. ... These statistics demonstrate the reverse discrimination against white college applicants due to affirmative action. After you graduate from college, you will be putting in your application for a job that you went to college for. ...

• Word Count: 2152
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bledsoe, the narrator's college President, has to be one of the most influential characters. ... He constantly makes a mockery of the college founder's dream of lifting the veil of ignorance of black people. The narrator, who suspects that Bledsoe is keeping the veil in place to ensure that the students remain in the dark, is unfortunately greatly influenced by him. ... Washington, who is supposedly the founder of the narrator's college, Bledsoe portrays that there is a necessary behavior of black people in order to maintain support and approval from white America. ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

("The Origins of Affirmative Action" by Marguita Sykes) This was now a concern that directly targeted the colleges and universities. ... 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 undergraduate program allows additional points automatically to minorities or the college entrance applications. ... Supreme Court to rule recently in favor of the University in saying that colleges and universities had compelling educational reasons for seeking a diverse student body and ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... Black women eventually earned college and graduate degrees and sought full time employment in higher rates than either black men or white women, while maintaining a community service ethic. ... She wa...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Prospective students must reside within a particular school's district, meaning that blacks from underprivileged neighborhoods are forced to attend poorly-funded schools. ... Consequently, less blacks complete a high school diploma, or have less college preparatory courses if they do go to college. ... When Barack Obama addressed the NAACP in 2007, he raised the concern that, "more young black men languish in prison than attend universities and colleges across America." ...

• Word Count: 595
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black students could not attend the University of Miami or any of Florida's other state-supported colleges except Florida A & M University in Tallahassee. ... On May 17, 1954, the Court declared unanimously that the segregation of public-school students solely on the basis of race violated the Equal Protection principle of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. ... The extent to which Florida had delayed dealing with the question of desegregation can perhaps best be observed in the fact that it was in February of 1959, that the Dade County School Board finally assigned four black ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate