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The future of Brown v. Board of Education and affirmative action – the desegregation programs for K-12 and higher education – hang in the balance. Two school desegregation cases are pending before the US Supreme Court in their 2006-2007 term: one from Seattle, WA and one from Louisville, KY. If the segregationists succeed, and the Seattle and Louisville school desegregation programs are banned, Brown v. Board of Education will be a dead letter. Every school desegregation program in the country will be outlawed, including voluntary integration plans in about 1000 school districts across the country. School districts which have implemented voluntary desegregation policies for decades will be forced by law to re-segregate their schools. On a state-by-state basis, Ward Connerly is threatening to replicate his electoral success in gaining passage of a ban on affirmative action in Michigan in at least eight other states. UEAALDF is intervening to defeat these attacks. On the legal front, we have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending K-12 desegregation [click for brief -- Abobe PDF file] and have brought a constitutional challenge against the Michigan ban on affirmative action [click for complaint -- Adobe PDF file], which, if successful, will overturn not only Proposal 2 in Michigan, but also Prop 209 in California and I-200 in Washington. As part of our education and outreach mission, UEAALDF partnered with BAMN to hold a very successful youth March on Washington on December 4, 2006, the day the Court heard oral arguments in the Louisville and Seattle cases [click for news coverage]. We are also co-sponsoring two conferences this spring – one in Michigan [click for pamphlet - Adobe PDF file] and one in California [click for pamphlet - Abode PDF file] to teach the lessons from the Michigan affirmative action experience, train youth leaders in the skills they need to build the New Civil Rights Movement and to begin forging the alliance between the black and Latino/a communities that is crucial to winning equal educational opportunity and eliminating second class citizenship for the non-white members of our nation. Americans of all races and in every part of the country overwhelmingly support integration and equal opportunity. Only a tiny handful of hardened bigots with a few wealthy backers seek to lead our nation back to the dark days of Jim Crow. With your help, we can back off an arrogant and over-reaching right wing which is increasingly out of touch with the sentiments of the American people. Please make a generous donation today to help finance the litigation in defense of integration and affirmative action. Checks may be made out to UEAALDF and mailed to P.O. Box 24462, Detroit, MI 48224. Credit card donations may be made on line [link to donation site]. You are also encouraged to become a UEAALDF official sponsor by making a monthly donation at whatever level is right for you – just download, complete and mail in the attached form [click for form].
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