Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979
How to Read the Civil Rights Act
By Ronald Dworkin
When Steelworkers v. Weber began its way through the federal courts in 1976, it was widely thought that the case would prove an even more important challenge to affirmative action programs than the famous Bakke case. Bakke tested affirmative action programs in universities and professional schools. But Weber tested the legality of programs giving blacks advantages in training programs for industry, programs that would benefit more blacks directly, and might be expected to have an earlier impact on economic racial inequality.
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