When Affirmative Action Was White
Subtitle: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: August 14, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393328516
First sentence: THE SUN HAD BEGUN its downward slope on the evening of June 4, 1965, as President Lyndon Johnson mounted the podium on the main quadrangle of Howard University, the country's most celebrated black center of higher education.