The Civil Rights Movement Went Beyond Affirmative Action
Affirmative action's repeal by the Supreme Court is a loss for racial fairness and would likely reduce Black and Hispanic enrolment in colleges and professional institutions.
It will also reduce the nation's leadership pipeline. It is also a chance to propose more ambitious and effective racial justice methods.
The ultimate objective of the civil rights movement was never affirmative action, but rather complete racial equality.
Affirmative action was, at most, a token of the Establishment's capitulation during a tumultuous period of racial upheaval.
Affirmative action was supported by the great majority of civil rights activists; Martin Luther King Jr.
argued that "a society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.