Promoters of the Fiesta Football Bowl offered the universities of Alabama and Louisville $400,000 each to fund minority-exclusive scholarships. The Department of Education declared minority-exclusive scholarships illegal. Documents the historically uneasy relationship between race-based scholarships and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…

This legal analysis of the issue of race-exclusive scholarships at colleges and universities and institutions receiving federal funds concludes that such scholarships are permissible under the Constitution or Title VI but only under limited circumstances (such as to remedy effects of prior identifiable institutional discrimination). (MSE)

Explores the issue of whether minority scholarships are illegal under federal statutes or the Constitution. Concludes that, according to Title VI and Supreme Court decisions, minority scholarships would be legal when offered by private schools and by public schools that could meet the court's requirements. (112 references) (MLF)

The Office of Civil Rights' proposed ruling of minority-specific college scholarships as violating federal civil rights law, except when implemented as a result of court-ordered plans, is discussed and criticized. Legislative language, case law concerning minority-specific plans, and the history of postsecondary desegregation are examined.…