Only the Onset of Affirmative Action Explains the Explosive Growth in Black Enrollments in Higher Education.

Cross, Theodore; Slater, Robert Bruce

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Publication Date: 1999

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Only the Onset of Affirmative Action Explains the Explosive Growth in Black Enrollments in Higher Education.

Cross, Theodore; Slater, Robert Bruce

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n23 p110-15 Spr 1999

Offers evidence that, although blacks were making limited progress in higher education before and immediately after the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s, significant progress did not occur until the late 1960s and later after strong affirmative-action admissions programs were in place. (SLD)

Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, College Admission, Educational History, Enrollment, Higher Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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