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ERIC Number: EJ588942
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
Only the Onset of Affirmative Action Explains the Explosive Growth in Black Enrollments in Higher Education.
Cross, Theodore; Slater, Robert Bruce
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n23 p110-15 Spr 1999
Offers evidence that, although blacks were making limited progress in higher education before and immediately after the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s, significant progress did not occur until the late 1960s and later after strong affirmative-action admissions programs were in place. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, College Admission, Educational History, Enrollment, Higher Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans