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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED343986 AUTHOR: Liss, Susan M., Ed.; Taylor, William L., Ed.
TITLE: Lost Opportunities: The Civil Rights Record of the
Bush Administration Mid-Term.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 251 p.
AVAILABILITY: Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, 2000 M
Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036 ($15.00).
ABSTRACT: This study of the civil rights policies and
practices of the Bush Administration reviews the first 2
years of that administration's actions, presents
recommendations for the future, and offers a series of
working papers prepared by experts in the civil rights
field. Part 1 of two major parts presents the actual report
of the Citizen's Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan
group of former officials of the Federal Government. That
report treats civil rights policy and enforcement in the
Bush Administration and offers seven recommendations for
change. Part 2 presents 22 working papers on civil rights
that deal with the following topics: (1) the Civil Rights
Act of 1990; (2) education (enforcement in elementary and
secondary education, sex discrimination, and minority
access to higher education); (3) employment rights (equal
employment opportunity and employment rights of older
Americans); (4) immigration; (5) health (civil rights
impact on national health policies and challenges posed by
the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); (6) housing (fair
housing enforcement, federal fair lending, credit
opportunity, and community reinvestment enforcement); (7)
affirmative action; (8) political rights (voting rights
enforcement, voter registration reform, and the 1990 Census
and minority undercount); (9) rights of institutionalized
persons; (10) rights of persons with disabilities
(Americans With Disabilities Act, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, and rights of the institutionalized
disabled); (11) United States Civil Rights Commission; and
(12) administration of justice (judicial nominations and
the Hate Crime Statistics Act). Included are notes on the
authors and extensive endnotes for the working papers. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Access-to-Education; Civil-Rights
Legislation; Disabilities-; Elementary-Secondary-Education;
Health-; Higher-Education; Housing-; Immigrants-; Law
Enforcement; Minority-Groups
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Civil-Rights; *Equal
Education; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Federal-Government;
*Government-Role
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