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The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978 : Architects of Affirmative Action - Miguel Espinoza

The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978

Architects of Affirmative Action

By: Miguel Espinoza

Hardcover | 13 February 2018

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In 1967, a group of professors at the UCLA School of Law sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in American higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), as it came to be known, served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large cohorts of minority students under non-traditional admissions standards, and sending them into courtrooms, classrooms, and boardrooms across the country as emissaries of integration upon graduation.

The LEOP was a novel idea and it worked. From its inception in 1967 to its partial demise in 1978 at the hands of a divided U.S. Supreme Court in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, UCLA's LEOP graduated hundreds of students who embarked upon prolific careers, often in public service, some working as defense attorneys and prosecutors, others as non-profit leaders and academics, and others as elected officials and members of the judiciary. Together, these students bent the arc of educational equality in profound and enduring ways, and the LEOP served as a model for similar programs around the country.

The integration of America's classrooms remains one of the most important issues facing higher education today. Since the founding of the LEOP and similar programs in the 1960s, successive generations of students, academics, and policymakers across the country have engaged in a vigorous debate over how best to realize true educational equality - a debate that inevitably turns to affirmative action. Drawing upon rich historical archives and interviews with more than 80 students and professors who helped integrate the UCLA School of Law in the 1960s and 1970s, this book argues that such programs should be reinstituted - and with haste - because affirmative action worked.
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Access to education remains one of the great equalizers in America today. But for too many Americans- especially those from low-income communities of color- our nation's colleges and universities remain out of reach. This book tells the story of UCLA's pioneering effort to break down the barriers to higher education through one of the largest and most successful affirmative action programs ever created. As the fight for educational equality continues today, this book provides powerful evidence that affirmative action works, and serves as an important reminder of our obligation to ensure the doors of opportunity remain open to all. -- Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
In this well-written and exhaustively researched book, Espinoza skillfully tells the story of race-conscious admissions at the UCLA School of Law from 1966 to 1978. This period reflects the inception of the law school's affirmative action program, which came to be known as the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), and the changes that took place to LEOP after the U.S. Supreme Court set forth the parameters of race-conscious admissions in Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978). This book is a must-read for anyone interested race and educational access in higher education. -- Philip Lee, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
In the 1960s, colleges and universities realized that prohibiting discrimination was not enough; affirmative action was essential for diversity. Miguel Espinoza has written a terrific book about the fight to create affirmative action programs in one institution: UCLA Law School. Espinoza's account is beautifully written and compelling. Anyone interested in the affirmative action debate today - and that should be all of us - would benefit greatly from reading this book. -- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

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