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Connerly Resurfaces to Oppose Reparations for Black Californians

Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black MediaJune 9, 2022

During the early 1990s, Ward Connerly, then-President of the California Civil Rights Initiative Campaign, was the leading African American supporting Proposition (Prop) 209, the ballot initiative that outlawed Affirmative Action in California in 1996.

GENERATION LOST: UC-BERKELEY’S MISSING BLACK GRADUATES

Dr. Harry EdwardsOctober 8, 2020

In the mid-1960s, the University of California, Berkeley started its Educational Opportunity Program to target underrepresented applicants and combat this history of discrimination. Unsurprisingly, this program was asuccess and the number of Black freshmen continued to rise until 1996. That year, Governor Pete Wilson and Black conservative Ward Connerly led an effort to repeal these education gains by passing Proposition 209.