Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education

Legal developments of the 1950s and 1960s such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases and legislative changes such as Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996), and Article I section 31 of the California Constitution (2004) have further restricted the legal strategies available to organizations and individuals seeking to combat various forms of racial bias and discrimination. Basically, the legal mechanisms designed to extend full citizenship rights to African Americans have failed. Although this failure affects many facets of the lives of African Americans, this study analyzes how the legal limitations placed on African American citizenship influence access to higher education.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Donahoo, Saran

Contributors dc:contributor

• Denise O. Green

• Education, History of

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3130909

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79771