Book Description

LOST OPPORTUNITIES: THE CIVIL RIGHTS RECORD OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION MID-TERM (Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., 1991) reviews the record of civil rights policy & enforcement of the Bush Administration after two years in office. The report is published by the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan group of former federal officials who had responsibility for civil rights policy & enforcement, & who came together in 1982 to seek ways to encourage progress in civil rights. LOST OPPORTUNITIES includes a report & recommendations of the Citizens' Commission as well as a series of working papers by leading civil rights experts. The topics covered include housing, education, employment, voting rights, health, immigration, affirmative action, minority undercount in the 1990 census, the Civil Rights Act of 1990/1991, rights of people with disabilities, rights of institutionalized persons, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, & judicial nominations. The Commission's report & recommendation highlight the rise in intergroup tensions & conflicts, review the data demonstrating the continuing effects of the legacy of discrimination, & call on the President to reject the politics of racial divisiveness & work to heal racial tensions.