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Background infomation of the Racial Justice Project


For Immediate Release: April 10, 2000

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The Racial Justice Project was launched in the fall of 1998. One of the goals of the Project is to identify bold and creative strategies for continuing the fight for equal opportunity in a post-Proposition 209 world. Through both public education and litigation we hope to tear down discriminatory barriers to racial equality in education, public contracting, employment and many other areas.

The Project will also formulate and realize strategies to combat racism, especially in the criminal justice and law enforcement systems. "The rapidly increasing incarceration rate of African American and Latino men is a major civil rights issue. It has become abundantly clear that people of color are granted enormous preferences at the jail house door but are barred from the doors of local universities. That has got to change," said Project Director Alexander.

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