The Case for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education
- ISBN-10
- 0882580752
- ISBN-13
- 9780882580753
- Category
- Affirmative action programs
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Study of Educational Policy Howard University
- Authors
- John Fleming, Gerald R. Gill, David H. Swinton
Description
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , " Higher Educational Staff Information ( EE0-6 ) ; phone calls by Gerald Gill to James S. Neal , Chief Information Branch , Research Division , EEOC , 19 July 1977 and 28 July 1977 . 94.
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