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1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
Executive Order 11625 - Providing Definition of Minority Business and Apparatus for Collection of Data regarding such firms
1972 Equal Opportunity Act
1974 Equal Educational Opportunities Act
Housing and Community Development Act
1975 Voting Rights Act
1976 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Runyon v. McCrary
1977 Community Reinvestment Act
Public Works Employment Act - 10% of federally funded public works contracts set aside for minority business
1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
1980 United Steelworkers of America v. Webber
Fullilove v. Kluznick
1982 Supreme Court let stand interdistrict transportation of students
Voting Rights Act extended
Supreme Court reversed lower court award of $1.2 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Mississippi in case against NAACP
1983 Holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. established
1984 Firefights Local Union No. 1784 Memphis Tennessee v. Stotts
1986 International Association of Firefights v. City of Cleveland
New York City v. Sheet Metal Workers Union
1987 United States v. Paradise
Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara, California
1988 Patterson v. McClean Credit Union
1989 Richmond v. Croson Co
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
Martin v. Wilks
1990 Metro Broadcasting v. FCC

 



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Thanks to Derrick Bell and his pioneer work: 
Race, Racism and American Law
(1993).