Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) -
Description: Homepage of United for Equality & Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund
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United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (UEAALDF) is a coalition of student organizers, activists, and attorneys committed to achieving integration and equality in America. This requires organizing and providing legal support to a new mass, integrated, youth-led civil rights movement that unites black, Latina/o, Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab, Native American, and white in a common struggle for equality. Affiliated with the college, high school, and middle school student organization BA
From 1997 to 2003, UEAALDF spearheaded the historic pro-affirmative-action student intervention in the landmark Grutter v. Bollinger case and organized the 50,000-person March on Washington that succeeded at getting the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in colleges and universities throughout the nation.
We stand at a crucial juncture in race relations in America. Either we revive the struggle of Martin Luther King for genuine integration and equality, or we witness a New Jim Crow—a new, more hypocritical version of separate and unequal under the guise of "post-racial" politics.
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) -