... to transfer inner-city black students to suburban schools that were predominately white. The backlash against preferential treatment for minorities became even more public in a Supreme Court case in 1978. Allan Bakke, a white man, claimed that a quota reserving places for minority applicants was responsible for the rejection of his application to medical school in California. The court ordered his admission, arguing ... ...

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... of California v. Bakke (1978). This landmark Supreme Court case imposed limits on affirmative action to ensure that greater opportunity for minorities did not come at the expense of the majority. Allan Blake, a white medical school applicant, claimed that he had been discriminated against by the University of California's admissions program. The school twice had rejected him, while several minority students with ... ...

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