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Organizing to Save Affirmative Action

2003-01-22

This week more than 1000 supporters of affirmative action, most of them teenagers from across the United States, gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan to plan a mass mobilization in Washington, DC this coming April calling for high quality integrated education for all.

In April, the United States Supreme Court will be ruling on the University of Michigan law school admissions policy, which some legal experts say effectively overturns the landmark racial desegregation case, Brown v. the Board of Education. Emboldened by President Bush's recent statements against the Michigan policy, the integrated group of youth and adults pledged to join a renewed civil rights movement. Ingrid Drake reports.

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