"Students rallying for affirmative action in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2003"

Title

"Students rallying for affirmative action in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2003"

Description

This photograph is of students at the University of Michigan who were protesting the decision handed down in the 2003 Supreme Court case, Gratz v. Bollinger. This case involved two white students who had applied to the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions program and had been denied. The students filed a lawsuit against the University alleging racial discrimination for being white and claiming that minorities were unfairly admitted to the school under affirmative action programs. The Supreme Court struck down the University's admissions policies favoring minorities, which sparked numerous protests from proponents of affirmative action.

Creator

Unknown (University of Michigan/Autostraddle.com)

Source

Unknown, "Students rallying for affirmative action in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2003," photograph, 2003, University of Michigan/Autostraddle.com, http://www.autostraddle.com/supreme-court-considers-rejecting-affirmative-action-from-college-admissions-process-134182/ (accessed November 22, 2014).

Date

2003-XX-XX

Contributor

Rose Buchanan

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Citation

Unknown (University of Michigan/Autostraddle.com), “"Students rallying for affirmative action in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2003",” The State of History, accessed March 28, 2024, https://soh.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/33245.