Affirmative Action - 1970 to 1990
Federal Laws | State Laws |
1971 | Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education |
Griggs v. Duke Power Co. | |
Executive Order 11625 - Providing Definition of Minority Business and Apparatus for Collection of Data regarding such firms | |
1972 | Equal Opportunity Act |
1974 | Equal Educational Opportunities Act |
Housing and Community Development Act | |
1975 | Voting Rights Act |
1976 | Home Mortgage Disclosure Act |
Equal Credit Opportunity Act | |
Runyon v. McCrary | |
1977 | Community Reinvestment Act |
Public Works Employment Act - 10% of federally funded public works contracts set aside for minority business | |
1978 | Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
1980 | United Steelworkers of America v. Webber |
Fullilove v. Kluznick | |
1982 | Supreme Court let stand interdistrict transportation of students |
Voting Rights Act extended | |
Supreme Court reversed lower court award of $1.2 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Mississippi in case against NAACP | |
1983 | Holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. established |
1984 | Firefights Local Union No. 1784 Memphis Tennessee v. Stotts |
1986 | International Association of Firefights v. City of Cleveland |
New York City v. Sheet Metal Workers Union | |
1987 | United States v. Paradise |
Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara, California | |
1988 | Patterson v. McClean Credit Union |
1989 | Richmond v. Croson Co |
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins | |
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio | |
Martin v. Wilks | |
1990 | Metro Broadcasting v. FCC |