Minorities Achieve Legal Equality

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and set them one step closer to being seen as equal under the law.

President Johnson believed an affirmative action was necessary to reach equality. the University of California, Davis established a special admissions program for minority students applying to medical school. The way the program worked was that Out of 100 spots, 16 were reserved for the minority. A caucasian man of the name Allan Bakke, was twice rejected by the University, while other less qualified students were accepted. He believed his 14th Amendment was violated. In 1978, it was decided by the Supreme Court that such programs had the legal right to take race into consideration. However, it was unconstitutional to have a fixed number of minority students allowed into the program. “Such a race-conscious consideration, however, may only be one of many factors used in assessing each applicant, and the race of each applicant may never be a preclusive factor in granting admission” (Doc 3). This case further gain equality for minorities by eliminating the limitation on the number of minority students who can be admissioned. After this event, minorities who had the qualifications to attend the medical school would be accepted.

Presently there isn’t generally segregation yet there still is a great deal of prejudice and racism. In spite of the fact that we have come along way. Areas that were once segregated in the 1800s are now open to the public. Such events like the Civil Rights Movement lead to the creation of significant acts. The Act of 1965 progressed legal equality, as well as Plessy v. Ferguson and Regents of University of California v. Bakke. Segregation and inequality have surpassed the United States.