“Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act”
Title | “Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act” |
Year for Search | 1991 |
Authors | Bell, Derrick [Albert] [Jr.](1930-2011) |
Secondary Title | California Law Review |
Volume / Edition | 79.3 |
Pagination | 597-611 |
Date Published | May 1991 |
Keywords | African American author, Male author |
Annotation | Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06. |
Info Notes | Foreword to a special issue, “Symposium: Civil Rights Legislation in the 1990s”. The author’s papers are held at New York University. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The author (1930-2011) was the first African American Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he regularly protested the lack of faculty diversity; he then became a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University. |
Full Text | 1991 Bell, Derrick [Albert], [Jr.] (1930-2011). “Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act.” California Law Review 79.3 (May 1991): 597-611, which is the Foreword to a special issue, “Symposium: Civil Rights Legislation in the 1990s”. Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06. The author’s papers are held at New York University. PSt Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell. The author was the first African American Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he regularly protested the lack of faculty diversity; he then became a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University. |