UCB Libraries

Affirmative Action and Civil Rights

• Affirmative Action in College Admissions (1997-2003)
  University of Michigan site containing background information, documents, and links relating to the Gratz and Hamacher / Grutter v. University of Michigan court case.
• Affirmative Action Review: Report to the President
  July 1995 report to the President of the United States on Federal affirmative action programs, by White House staff. Includes a history of affirmative action, a literature review of empirical research on the topic, and a review of Federal programs. Also provides the text of the Presidential Directive of July 19, 1995 to Federal agencies on the implementation of Federal affirmative action programs, and a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel Memorandum of June 28, 1995 "on the implications of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 63 U.S.L.W. 4523 (U.S. June 12, 1995)."
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page
  From the U.S. Department of Justice. "The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, programs and services provided by state and local governments, goods and services provided by private companies, and in commercial facilities."
• The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to member of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Use terms like "Affirmative action" or "Civil Rights."
• EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) Occupation Data
  Census 2000 file containing data on the number of people employed in nearly 500 occupations, and covering gender, race, ethnicity, education, age, industry and earnings.
• Survey of Business Owners
  Most recent (2002) data from the Census Bureau, provides statistics that describe the composition of U.S. businesses by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race
• U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division
  "Created for the purpose of enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination."
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
  Its mission is "to ensure equality of opportunity by vigorously enforcing federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment." The site provides the full text of the laws enforced by the Commission, Types of Discrimination on various forms of illegal discrimination, and links to related Federal agencies.

• United Nations Programs for the Advancement of Women
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  This organization addresses numerous issues related to Civil Rights, such as:
• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Education
• Racism

• American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA)
  Offers information on affirmative action at the federal and state level, including statutes, administrative law, judicial action and the actions of agencies and commissions. Provides the full text of executive statements, selected court decisions, pending legislation and regulations, as well as links to online news articles and an extensive list of related Internet sites., from the Center for Individual Rights.
• The Center for Individual Rights: Active and recent cases.
• Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: a Web Page for Research
  Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The site presents material on all sides of the debate, and includes the text of popular and scholarly periodical articles, "policy documents," pending state and federal legislation, information on pending court cases, "current legislative updates, and an annotated bibliography of research and teaching materials." Among the topics covered: the economics of affirmative action, the recognition of merit, and individual vs. group rights.
• Affirmative Action Resource List
  Professor Norman Matloff of the University of California at Davis. Includes governmental and non-governmental resources on all sides of the debate.
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
• Legal Information Institute (LII)
  Maintained by Cornell's Law School, includes collections of primary materials and overviews for the following topics:
• Civil Rights and Discrimination
• Employment Discrimination
• Equal Protection of the Laws
• LII also permits searching for selected historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions and all U.S. Supreme Court decisions from May 1990 to the present

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on affirmative action available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  affirmative action and employ*	affirmative action and employ*
  affirmative action and educat*	affirmative action and educat*
  civil rights	civil rights
  affirmative action or civil rights (government publications only)	affirmative action or civil rights (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Black History
• Demographics Relating to Race and Ethnicity
• Gender Equality
• Human Rights