Affirmative action programs–Law and legislation

  • People’s law update: Affirmative action – where do we go from here?

    Bob Lefcourt speaks with Judith Layzer from the office of Contract Compliance of New York City; Kathy Gmeiner, National Lawyers Guild affirmative action task force; and Victor Goode, national director of National Conference of Black Lawyers. “People’s law update” was a sub-series of the WBAI series “Bread and roses.”

  • Affirmative discrimination : jobs (Episode 6)

    Conclusion of a discussion between Edwin E. Dunaway and the staff of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara on the jobs programs designed to help minority Americans. This is the second of two episodes on affirmative action and the sixth of thirteen episodes of the Law and Society series, produced…

  • Quotas for negroes: insult or compensation? (Episode 7)

    This is a recording of one of six panel discussions held at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions regarding affirmative action. Harry Kalven, Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School leads the discussion on the possible ways of compensating today for the past inequalities for Blacks in the American workforce. This is…