1. Affirmative action and principles of justice: The issues
2. The legislative history of Title VII:
Equal employment opportunity and civil rights: setting the agenda
Kennedy's civil rights proposals
HR7152 in the House of Representatives: a strategy of strength and compromise
HR7152 in the Senate: an economic discussion of Title VII
Initial implementation of Title VII: 1965-1971
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972: systemic discrimination and the need for change
The Reagan EEOC and the implementation of Title VII
Title VII and the Supreme Court
3. Early Title VII employment discrimination case law:
Early cases: defining discrimination and the scope of make-whole relief
Goals and quotas considered under equal protection: Bakke and Fullilove
4. The affirmative action cases:
United Steelworkers v. Weber: recognition of Title VII's redistributive purpose
Affirmative action and seniority: two steps back with Stotts and Wygant
Goals and quotas reconsidered: return to redistributive affirmative action
Equal protection and compensation: United States v. Paradise
Affirmative action for women: Johnson v. Transportation Agency
The state of affirmative action case law
5. Affirmative action, policymaking, and statutory interpretation:
Legislative history of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Early Title VII employment discrimination cases
The philosophical basis of affirmative action