APRIL 1, 2003
MARCH ON WASHINGTON

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On April 1, 2003 in the nation's capital, students and youth of the New Civil Rights Movement took a historic stand declaring "WE WON'T GO BACK!" On the day the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Grutter v. Bollinger, BAMN organized a National March on Washington. Bursting with joy and pride, more than fifty thousand people, mostly college and high school youth from over 300 campuses across the country, marched and demanded that the U.S. Supreme Court uphold affirmative action. The city of Washington, D.C. was filled with the voices of a new generation of young people demanding equality and integration in our nation's schools, demanding that the "separate and unequal" that Brown v. Board of Education condemned nearly FIFTY YEARS AGO finally be eradicated NOW. We placed our new civil rights movement on the national stage. On April 1, 2003, a new chapter in the fight for integration and equality in America was begun.


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Other media on the web:

Affirmative Action upheld
at the Supreme Court

See BAMN's statement on the decision

Supreme Court ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger [Adobe PDF file]
Supreme Court ruling in Gratz v. Bollinger [Adobe PDF file]