The desegregation of higher education, race conscious admissions
policies and the federal constitution: before Brown vs. Board
and beyond. |Abstract:||It has been more than 50 years since
Brown vs. Board and almost equally as long since the Equal
Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the context of
Higher Learning Institutions and the enforcement of Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 substantiated the necessity of the
continuance of Affirmative Action Policies to enforce Race
Conscious Undergraduate Admissions for minorities at colleges &
universities was put into law, and African Americans in
particular and other historically underrepresented groups are
still struggling in numbers at public institutions. This article
will review a series of historical and current events that will
highlight strides in college admissions policies, where we are
today, and the current legal debates that challenge the future
of race based admission policies.| Affirmative action (Social
aspects) Affirmative action