Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-wp2c8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-06T22:31:00.090Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Racial Proportionalism and the Origins of Employment Discrimination Policy, 1933–1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Extract

The 1930s and 1940s saw the beginning of a discussion of the problem of racial discrimination in employment. The Great Depression, the maturation of civil rights organizations, and the New Deal's change in American principles of property rights and-labor policy helped launch this discussion. Campaigns undertaken by black organizations and federal agencies began to grapple with the idea of race-based remedial strategies to combat discrimination in employment, and our modern concept of equal employment opportunity, which holds that an employer's workforce should contain approximately the same proportion of minorities as are present in the population, first received expression in this period.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1. A precursor of the 1930s campaign can be found in the response of the Ford Motor Company to the post–World War I depression. Ford's policy was “that Negroes should make up the same proportion of the workers as corresponded to their proportion in the population of Detroit.” Myrdal, Gunnar, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York, 1944), 1120–21.Google Scholar

2. Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliot, “The Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action,” in Meier, and Rudwick, , eds., Along the Color Line (Urbana, 1976), 313–88Google Scholar; Peeks, Edward, The Long Struggle for Black Power (New York, 1971), 268–89Google Scholar; Hunter, Gary Jerome, “Don't Buy From Where You Can't Work: Black Urban Boycott Movements During the Depression, 1929–41” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1977), 256–68.Google Scholar

3. Green v. Samuelson, 99 A.L.R. 529 (1935); Transcript, Samuelson v. Green, Baltimore City Circuit Court, Equity Papers, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.

4. Judgment, Samuelson v. Green; Frankfurter, Felix and Green, Nathan, The Labor Injunction (New York, 1930), 2531Google Scholar; Transcript, Samuelson v. Green.

5. Mitchell letter, NAACPI-G-85; Mitchell testimony in Transcript; Watson, Denton L., Lion in the Lobby: A Biography of Clarence Mitchell (New York, 1990), 8896Google Scholar; Jackson to White, May 29, 1934; White to Jackson, June 1, 1934; June 5, 1934; June 11, 1934; NAACP I-G-85; White to Arthur B. Spingarn, June 1, 1934, Arthur B. Spingarn Papers, Box 12, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

6. W.A.C. Hughes to Arthur B. Spingarn, June 11, 1934, Box 12, Arthur B. Spingarn Papers, LC; Maryland Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs, vol. 574, January Term, 1935.

7. Green v. Samuelson, 99 A.L.R 529 (1935).

8. A few states in the Northeast did prohibit racial discrimination in state employment, by utilities, and in labor unions. Bonfield, Arthur Earl, “The Origin and Development of American Fair Employment Legislation,” Iowa Law Review 52 (1967): 1043–92Google Scholar, 1051; Maslow, Will and Robison, Joseph B., “Civil Rights Legislation and the Fight for Equality, 1863–1952,” University of Chicago Law Review 20 (1953): 363413, 393.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

9. Transcript, Samuelson v. Green.

10. Ibid.

11. Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, “Or Does It Explode?”: Black Harlem in the Great Depression (New York, 1991), 114–39Google Scholar; Muraskin, William, “The Harlem Boycott of 1934,” Labor History 13 (1972), 361–67CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 318–19; A. S. Beck Shoe Corp. v. Johnson, 274 N.Y.S. 946 (1934); Franklin, Charles Lionel, The Negro Labor Unionist of New York (New York, 1936), 130–42.Google Scholar

12. Johns, Vere E., “We Must Have Jobs,” The Crisis 41 (September 1934): 258Google Scholar; Schuyler, George S., “A Dangerous Boomerang,” The Crisis (September 1934): 259Google Scholar; Muraskin, “Harlem Boycott,” 364.

13. New York Age, October 13, 1934; Amsterdam News, October 20, 1934, September 15, 1934, October 20, 1934; A. S. Beck Shoe Corp. v. Johnson, New York County Supreme Court, Index No. 33–689 (1934), New York City Hall of Records (hereafter “Beck, NYCSC”); Muraskin, “Harlem Boycott,” 363, 368; Memorandum in Support of Motion, NAACP I-D-104. The Supreme Court in New York is a trial court of original jurisdiction. Its decisions can be appealed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court or to the New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest tribunal. Beck did not distinguish among the various black organizations, so Johnson appeared as the principal defendant despite the fact that his organization was not involved in the picketing and disclaimed any association with the Picket Committee. The court ultimately dismissed the charges with regard to Johnson.

14. Rosenman edited a draft opinion to remove language referring to intimidation and defamation. Beck, NYCSC.

15. Hand, Samuel B., Counsel and Advise: A Political Biography of Samuel I. Rosenman (New York, 1979)Google Scholar; Beck, NYCSC; A. S. Beck Shoe Corp. v. Johnson, 274 N.Y.S. 946 (1934); New York Times, November 1, 1934.

16. Walter White to Samuel I. Rosenman, November 1,1934; White to Arthur B. Spingarn, November 3, 1934; Spingarn to White, November 5, 1934; White to Spingarn, November 15, 1934; Spingarn to White, November 16, 1934; Spingarn Papers, Box 12, LC.

17. Harvard Law Review 48 (1935): 691CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Columbia Law Review 35 (1935): 121CrossRefGoogle Scholar; New York University Law Quarterly Review 12 (1935): 485.Google Scholar

18. Ware, Gilbert, William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure (New York, 1984), 6680Google Scholar; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 321; Davis, John Aubrey, “We Win the Right to Fight for Jobs,” Opportunity 16 (August 1938): 230–37.Google Scholar

19. Wright, Gavin, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (New York, 1986), 223Google Scholar; Becker, Economics of Discrimination; Williams, Walter, The State Against Blacks (New York, 1982).Google Scholar

20. Washington Tribune, August 31, 1933; October 12, 1933; December 7, 1933.

21. Kaufman, Inc. v. New Negro Alliance, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Equity no. 56586, National Federal Records Center, Suitland, Md.; Washington Tribune, December 21, 1933; Sketch of New Negro Alliance History, Hastie Papers, Reel 38, LC.

22. Ware, William Hastie, 67–71; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 323–24; Blackmun, Regents of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).

23. 47 Stat.L. 70 (1932).

24. Washington Tribune, December 21, 1933; December 28, 1933; January 11, 1934; January 18, 1934; Pittsburgh Courier, January 27, 1934; New Negro Alliance v. Kaufman, Inc., U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Records and Briefs, vol. 483, no. 6187 (1934).

25. Ware, William Hastie, 76; Washington Tribune, October 12, 1933; December 21, 1933; April 26, 1934; Pittsburgh Courier, April 25, 1936; May 9, 1936.

26. Sanitary Grocery Co. v. New Negro Alliance, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Equity no. 61165, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Md.; New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Records and Briefs, vol. 549, no. 6836 (1936)Google Scholar; Chase, Harold et al. , eds., Biographical Dictionary of the Federal Judiciary (Detroit, 1976).Google Scholar

27. New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Records and Briefs, vol. 549, no. 6836.

28. Chase et al., eds., Biographical Dictionary; New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 92F.2d 510 (1937).

29. Ibid. Stephens, incidentally, was a young (52), recently appointed Catholic Democrat.

30. Petition for Writ of Certiorari, U.S. Supreme Court, Transcripts of Records and File Copies of Briefs, 1937, vol. 106, no. 511Google Scholar; New York Times, November 23, 1937.

31. Brief for Petitioners, U.S. Supreme Court, Transcripts of Records and File Copies of Briefs, 1937, vol. 106, no. 511.Google Scholar

32. Lofgren, Charles, The Plessy Case: A Legal–Historical Interpretation (New York, 1987), 204–7.Google Scholar

33. Briefs for Respondent, U.S. Supreme Court, Transcripts.

34. New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 303 U.S. 552 (1938); New York Times, March 29, 1938.

35. New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 303 U.S. 552 (1938).

36. NAACP, 29th Annual Report for 1938 (New York, 1939), 15Google Scholar; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 326; Ware, William Hastie, 79; Comment, Labor Law—When a Dispute Exists Within the Meaning of the Norris-LaGuardia Act,” Michigan Law Review 36 (1938): 1146–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

37. Murray, Pauli, “The Right to Equal Opportunity in Employment,” California Law Review 33 (1945): 388433, 396.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

38. McNeil, Genna Rae, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Philadelphia, 1983), 84, 133, 216–17.Google Scholar

39. “Suggestions for Consideration by the Committee for General Welfare and Bill of Rights of the Unofficial Committee on the Constitutional Convention, New York State,” September 23, 1937, National Urban League Papers, Series XII, Box 6, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 331.

40. Stevens v. West Philadelphia Youth Civic League, 3 L.R.R.M. 792 (1939); 34 Pennsylvania District and County Reports 612 (1939); Siegell v. Newark National Negro Congress, 2 L.R.R. Man. 859 (1938); Newark Evening News, April 20, 1938; Newark Star-Eagle, April 20, 1938; New York Times, April 21, 1938.

41. Texas Motion Picture and Vitaphone Operators v. Galveston Motion Picture Operators, 132 S.W. 2d 299 (1939).

42. Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 1, 1938; May 5, 1938.

43. Labor—Norris-LaGuardia Act,” St. John's Law Review 13 (1938): 171Google Scholar; Anora Amusement Corp. v. Doe, 12 N.Y.S. 2d 400 (1939).

44. Stoller v. Citizens Civic Affairs Committee, File no. 3858 (1940), Kings County Supreme Court, Clerk's Office, Brooklyn, N.Y.; 19 N.Y.S. 2d 597 (1940); Citizens Civic Affairs Committee to National Negro Congress, April 16, 1938, National Negro Congress Papers, Group I, Reel 12.

45. Muraskin, “Harlem Boycott,” 370; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 328; Memorandum for Walter White, November 1, 1939, NAACP I-C-323; Poppas v. Straughn, 7 L.R.R.M. 693 (1940); Stolper v. Straughn, 23 N.Y.S. 2d 604 (1940); File no. 11021 (1940); Solomon v. Straughn, File no. 9705 (1940); Hillary Theater v. Straughn, File no. 16694 (1940), Kings County Supreme Court Clerk's Office, Brooklyn, N.Y.

46. Lifschitz v. Straughn, File no. 14917 (1940), Kings County Supreme Court, Clerk's Office, Brooklyn, N.Y; 27 N.Y.S. 2d 193 (1940).

47. New York Times, April 29, 1938.

48. Ibid., August 8, 1938; August 10, 1938.

49. Hamilton, Charles V., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (New York, 1992), 89104Google Scholar; Meier and Rudwick, “Origins,” 329; Capeci, Dominic J. Jr., “From Harlem to Montgomery: The Bus Boycotts and Leadership of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” The Historian 41 (1979): 721–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Greenberg, “Or Does It Explode?,” 204–5; Freeman, Joshua B., In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–66 (New York, 1989), 255–56.Google Scholar

50. Weiss, Nancy J., Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (Princeton, 1983), 3739.Google Scholar

51. Frances Perkins to Eugene Kinkle Jones, April 17,1933, NAACP I-C-223; William N. Markoe to Bernard Dickman, July 8, 1933, National Urban League Papers VI-E-84; C. C. Spaulding to State Chairmen, July 25, 1935, NUL IV-A-4; “Erection of Low-Cost Housing Under the Recovery Act,” n.d., NUL IV-A-4; New York Times, September 11, 1932,14; Unsigned to Frances Perkins, May 18, 1933, NAACP I-C-223; Unsigned to George Drayton, October 11, 1938, NAACP I-C-323.

52. Kirby, John B., Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race (Knoxville, Tenn., 1980)Google Scholar, chap. 2; Kruman, Mark W., “Quotas for Blacks: The PWA and the Black Construction Worker,” Labor History 16 (1975): 3749CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Wolters, Raymond, Negroes and the Great Depression (Westport, Conn., 1970), 196209.Google Scholar

53. John A. Lankford to Ickes, January 11, 1934; Ickes to Lankford, January 25, 1934, Office of the Secretary, General Classified File 1–280, Box 506; Walter White to Ickes, Records of Ickes, Box 10, RG 48, N A; Weaver, Robert C., “An Experiment in Negro Labor,” Opportunity 14 (1936): 295–98.Google Scholar

54. Minutes of the First Meeting of the Interdepartmental Group, February 7, 1934; Foreman to Ickes, February 20, 1934; Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Interdepartmental Group, June 1, 1934, Office of the Secretary, General Classified File 1–280, Box 506, RG 48, NA.

55. Lawrence Oxley to Lubin, January 23, 1936, Records of Lawrence Oxley, Box 12, RG 183, NA; New York Amsterdam News, April 11, 1936; Oxley to Isador Lubin, August 17, 1935, Oxley Records, Box 12, RG 183, N A; Message of Harold Ickes to Annual NAACP Conference, 1935, Office of the Secretary, General Classified File 1–280, Box 506, RG 48, NA; “Resume of Conference on Employment Difficulties faced by Negroes on PWA Projects,” Oxley Records, Box 12, RG 183, NA.

56. Kruman, “Quotas for Blacks”; Weaver, “Experiment in Negro Labor,” Weaver, , Negro Labor: A National Problem (Port Washington, N.Y., 1946), 13.Google Scholar

57. Thieblot, Armand J. Jr., The Davis-Bacon Act (Philadelphia, 1975), 610Google Scholar; Epstein, Richard, Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Antidiscrimination Laws (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), 46Google Scholar. For a general discussion, see Sundstrom, William A., “Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History 52 (1992): 415–29CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fiss, Owen M., “A Theory of Fair Employment Laws,” University of Chicago Law Review 38 (1971): 235314CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Williams, The State Against Blacks.

58. Hawley, Ellis, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence (Princeton, 1966), 277Google Scholar; Becker, Gary, “Union Restrictions on Entry,” in Bradley, Philip D., ed., The Public Stake in Union Power (Charlottesville, Va., 1959), 209–24Google Scholar; Posner, Richard, “Some Economics of Labor Law,” University of Chicago Law Review 51 (1984): 9881011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

59. Grant, Nancy L., TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo (Philadelphia, 1990), 1924Google Scholar; Walter White to Robert Fechner, December 28, 1937, Fechner to White, December 29, 1937, NAACP I-C-223; Kifer, Francis Allen, “The Negro Under the New Deal, 1933–41” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1961), 280.Google Scholar

60. Francis Allen Kifer, “The Negro Under the New Deal, 1933–41,” 66; Diary of Harold Ickes, September 15, 1940, 4809, May 17, 1941, 5522, March 6, 1943, 7523, August 15, 1943, 8073, September 5, 1943, 8155, Manuscripts Division, LC; Weiss, Farewell to the Party of Lincoln, 53; Ickes to McKeough, July 6, 1935, Office of the Secretary, General Classified File 1–280, Box 506, RG 48, NA; Neil J. Convey to John A. Jones, November 27, 1939, NAACP I-C-400; NYA “Information,” September 10, 1935, Oxley Records, Box 12, RG 183, NA; Kirby, Black Americans, 22; Bunche, Ralph, The Political Status of the Negro in the Age of FDR (Chicago, 1973 [1940]), 623Google Scholar; U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1961 Report, Part III: Employment (Washington, D.C., 1961), 90.Google Scholar

61. Weiss, Farewell to the Party of Lincoln, 51.

62. Weaver, Negro Labor, 14.

63. Reed, Merl E., Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, 1941–1946 (Baton Rouge, 1991), 27Google Scholar; Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York, 1994), 249.Google Scholar

64. Garfinkel, Herbert, When Negroes March: The Organizational Politics of FEPC (New York, 1969)Google Scholar; Ruchames, Louis, Race, Jobs, and Politics: The Story of FEPC (New York, 1952)Google Scholar; Reed, Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

65. Ruchames, Race, Jobs, and Politics, 32–45; “A Summary of the Hearings of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice Held in Los Angeles, California, October 20–21, 1941, with Findings and Recommendations,” NAACP II-B-11; Martin Reese to WPB, March 21, 1942; Metropolitan Council on Fair Employment Practice, Minutes of the Meeting Held at the Hotel Commodore, June 25, 1942; P. Thomas to Walter White, June 26, 1942, NAACP IIA- 260.

66. United States Committee on Fair Employment Practice, First Report (Washington, D.C., 1945), 5558Google Scholar; “To Prohibit Discrimination,”Hearings before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 78th Cong., 2d sess.(Washington, D.C.,1944),209Google Scholar; FEPC Final Report (Washington, D.C., 1947), 1619.Google Scholar

67. Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 323 U.S. 192 (1944); Creamer, George Louis, “Collective Bargaining and Racial Discrimination,” Rocky Mountain Law Review 17 (1945): 163–92Google Scholar; Gould, William, Black Workers in White Unions: Job Discrimination in the United States (Ithaca, N.Y., 1977), 3538.Google Scholar

68. 155 P.2d 329 (1945); Broussard, Albert S., Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Equality in the West, 1900–1954 (Lawrence, Kan., 1993), 143–65Google Scholar; Wollenberg, Charles, “James v. Marinship: Trouble on the New Black Frontier,” California History 60 (1981): 262–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

69. “Fair Employment Practice Act,”Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, Senate, 79th Cong., 1st sess.(1945),39Google Scholar, 172–73; “Antidiscrimination in Employment,”Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Senate, 80th Cong., 1st sess.(Washington, D.C.,1947),609Google Scholar; “Federal Fair Employment Practice Act,”Hearings before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, 81st Cong., 1st sess.(Washington, D.C.,1949),20, 36, 272.Google Scholar

70. “Federal Fair Employment Practice Act,”Hearings before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, 81st Cong., 1st sess.(Washington, D.C.,1949),239.Google Scholar

71. The New York State Commission Against Discrimination: A New Technique for an Old Problem,” Yale Law Journal 56 (1947): 836–63Google Scholar; Higbee, Jay Anders, The Development and Administration of the New York Law Against Discrimination (University, Ala., 1966), xivGoogle Scholar; Note, The Operation of State FEPCs,” Harvard Law Review 68 (1955): 685–97Google Scholar, 689; New York State Commission Against Discrimination, 1948 Annual Report, 11; Stenographic Transcript of the Proceedings Before the President's Committee on Government Contract Compliance, Washington, D.C., July 15, 1952, 182, Collection 25, Box 7, George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, Md.; NYSCAD 1949 Annual Report, 26; 1950 Annual Report, 44–15; 1951 Annual Report, 33; 1955 Annual Report, 57.

72. Weaver, Negro Labor, 283–305; Speech of Gloster B. Current, July 13, 1944, NAACP Microfilm Edition, Group I, Reel 11; Murray, Philip, “When Peace Comes.… What?” Chicago Defender, January 27, 1945.Google Scholar

73. NAACP II-A-586.

74. U.S. Supreme Court, Transcript of Records and File Copies of Briefs, 1949, vol. 35, no. 61; Lucky Stores v. Progressive Citizens of America, California State Archives.

75. Thurgood Marshall to Noah Griffin, June 13, 1947, NAACP II-B-87.

76. Hughes v. Superior Court of California, 186 P.2d 756 (1947). John Hughes was the first named defendant among the Progressive Citizens, and his complaint was formally against the Superior Court's injunction. Lucky Stores was the actual interested party and it handled the defense and subsequent appeals.

77. Petitioner's Answer to Petition for Hearing by die Supreme Court, January 9, 1948, Transcript, 83–90; Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, April 28, 1948, NAACP II-B-87.

78. Hughes v. Superior Court, 198 P.2d 885 (1948).

79. White, G. Edward, The American Judicial Tradition (New York, 1988), 292316.Google Scholar

80. Notes and Recent Decisions,” California Law Review 37 (1949): 296301Google Scholar; Recent Decisions,” Syracuse Law Review 1 (1949): 153Google Scholar; Grover, George G., “Comment,” Southern California Law Review 22 (1949): 442–54.Google Scholar

81. Noah W. Griffin to Roy Wilkins, August 7, 1947; Griffin to Gloster B. Current, November 19, 1947; Irene Morgan to West Coast Regional Office, December 2, 1947; People of Richmond to NAACP Board of Directors, February 28, 1949; NAACP II-C-18; Griffin to Current, March 9, 1949, NAACP II-C-234; Griffin to Walter White, November 8, 1946, White to Griffin, November 11, 1946, White to Committee on Administration, November 16, 1946, Griffin to White, November 18, 1946, December 12, 1946, NAACP II-A-201; Thurgood Marshall to Griffin, June 13, 1947, NAACP II-B-87.

82. NAACP II-B-87.

83. Hughes v. Superior Court, 339 U.S. 460 (1950). William O. Douglas was recovering from a riding accident and took no part in the case. While it is impossible to say how he would have voted in 1950, twenty-four years later Douglas cited Hughes in his opposition to an affirmative-action admissions program at the University of Washington Law School; DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312 (1974), 337–38. Justices Black, Minton, and Reed concurred in Frankfurter's decision upon another precedent. Justice Tom Clark prepared a dissent but did not publish it. Tushnet, Mark, “Change and Continuity in the Concept of Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and Affirmative Action,” Social Philosophy and Policy 8 (1991): 150–71, 154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

84. The Common-Law and Constitutional Status of Antidiscrimination Boycotts,” Yale Law Journal 66 (1957): 397412CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rosen, Sanford Jay, “The Law of Racial Discrimination in Employment,” California Law Review 53 (1965): 729–99CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Weiner, Harold M., “Negro Picketing for Employment Equality,” Howard Law Journal 13 (1967): 271302.Google Scholar

85. Brown itself left the door open to “intelligently controlled racialism” rather than clearly condemning racial classifications. Kull, Andrew, The Color-Blind Constitution (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), 171Google Scholar; Wilkinson, J. Harvie III, From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954–1978 (New York, 1979), 29Google Scholar, 66–67; Lusky, Louis, “The Stereotype: Hard Core of Racism,” Buffalo Law Review 13 (1963): 450–61Google Scholar, 458; Ravitch, Diane, The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1954–1980 (New York, 1983), 129Google Scholar; Eastland, Terry and Bennett, William, Counting by Race: Equality from the Founding Fathers to Bakke (New York, 1979), 120–23.Google Scholar

86. Graham, Hugh Davis, The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960–72 (New York, 1990), 233–54Google Scholar; Belz, Herman, Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action (New Brunswick, N.J., 1991), 741Google Scholar; Sitkoff, Harvard, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954–80 (New York, 1981), 208–22Google Scholar; Chafe, William, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 2d ed. (New York, 1991), 302–20Google Scholar; Polenberg, Richard, One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1938 (New York, 1980), 231–43.Google Scholar