affirmative action

Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly takes barbs at Truman State

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:00:42 +0000

KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly on Thursday brought his long-running campaign to Truman State University, where an overflow crowd alternately mocked and cheered his efforts in support of a November ballot initiative that would ban consideration of race in public hiring and college admissions.

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Connerly drew his biggest applause of the night after briefly losing his composure responding to an audience member's interruption.

''Lady, would you please just shut up?'' he said.

ACLU: Affirmative Action: What's at Stake for Missouri and America

ben — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:37:05 +0000

The ACLU of Eastern
Missouri is kicking off our 2008 National Directors' Series on
Wednesday April 2 with National Racial Justice Program Director Dennis
Parker.

His keynote address will
be: Affirmative Action: What's at Stake for Missouri and
America

Currently there is a
movement to amend the Missouri State Constitution to ban affirmative

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Ward Connerly's "Super Tuesday for Segregation" Targets Missouri

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:06:46 +0000

Article first published in The Black Commentator. Cartoon from BAMN; first published March 1998 Emerge Magazine.

"Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races." - Ward Connerly, on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports," Dec. 13, 2002

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