Research Catalog

Title

The Supreme Court's Bakke decision. [Sound recording]

Details

Additional Authors

• Graham, Fred P.
• Rather, Dan.

Series Statement

Vital history cassettes, 1978, July, no. 1

Uniform Title

Vital history cassettes. 1978, July, no. 1.

Subjects

• Bakke, Allen Paul
• Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > United States
• United States > Supreme Court

Note

• Distributed by Grolier Education Corp., New York.
• Duration: 9 min., 2 sec.
• SUMMARY: While vague in some respects, the Bakke decision has found strict racial quotas in university affirmative action programs unconstitutional:; the Court's middle position will allow less rigid approaches to achieving affirmative action goals for minorities and women in education and employment.

With (note)

• With: Kazan, E. Film director turned writer.--Rifkin, J. Engineering test-tube babies.

Performer (note)

• CBS legal correspondent Fred Graham and three leading civil rights authorities are interviewed by Dan Rather.

Event (note)

• Recorded as broadcast June 28, 1978, from Washington, D.C.