Press Releases. News This section includes press releases and statements about education and racial justice issues. University of Texas at Austin is an historic reaffirmation of affirmative action as a necessary tool for creating diverse campuses. Brown at School Segregation by Race, Poverty and State This research brief shows how intensifying segregation interacts with a dramatic increase in concentrated poverty in our schools, escalating the educational harm.
CRP Co-director calls on advocates and scholars to monitor decentralization of new federal ed law CRP Co-Director, in a journal article on the new federal education law, calls on education and civil rights advocates and scholars to monitor the massive decentralization of federal education funds to the states. Nevertheless, widespread racial inequality remains a fundamental fact of American life, including for the current generation of college, graduate, and professional school applicants who have grown up in a deeply racially fragmented society.
Until race ceases to be the barometer of economic, social, and political opportunity, it will continue to be an essential factor in higher education admissions. Affirmative action is important not only as part of the ongoing struggle for civil rights, but as a means of promoting democracy itself.
As Justice O'Connor stated in her opinion upholding affirmative action in Grutter , "In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. As explained in the ACLU Position Paper on affirmative action , "Avenues of opportunity for those previously excluded remain far too narrow. We need affirmative action now more than ever.
Bakke , the ACLU wrote in its amicus brief: The root concept of the principle of non-discrimination is that individuals should be treated individually, in accordance with their personal merits, achievements and potential, and not on the basis of the supposed attributes of any class or caste with which they may be identified.
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In , black and Latino men were half as likely as whites were to be employed as managers or professionals and much more likely to be employed as machine operators and laborers. The ACLU has no political affiliations and makes no test of individuals' ideological leanings a condition of membership or employment. Members and staff of the national ACLU and its affiliates may be Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Federalists, Libertarians, or members of any other political party or no party at all.
What the ACLU asks of its staff and officials is that they consistently defend civil liberties and the Constitution. This lawsuit struck at the heart of the First Amendment. It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something people find reasonable. The defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people reject. The ACLU of Virginia brought suit on behalf of an individual whose permit to demonstrate was revoked by the city government because the government had not met the standards required by the First Amendment to impose a prior restraint on speech.
The purpose of the lawsuit was to make the government accountable to the constitution not to defend the content of the speech of white supremacists or Nazis, speech we abhor. For more information, see the op-ed written by our Executive Director and Board President that appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch. The Second Amendment provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
For more information, please read our statement on the Second Amendment. The ACLU has never pursued the removal of religious symbols from personal gravestones. The ACLU has long argued that veterans and their families should be free to choose religious symbols on military headstones -- whether Crosses, Stars of David, Pentacles, or other symbols -- and that the government should not be permitted to restrict such religious expression in federal cemeteries.
Personal gravestones are the choice of the family members, not the choice of the government.
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