1970s+Civil+Rights

​ __**Civil Rights Timeline**__ **__1970-__** The African American business magazine Black Enterprise ([]) begins publication, aimed at the growing African American middle class. Seattle School Board adopts a plan designed to eliminate racial imblance in schools by fall 1979. In a blow to efforts to diversify university enrollment, the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws racial quotas in a suit brought by Allan Bakke, a white man who had been turned down by the medical school at University of California, Davis.
 * __1971-__** The Supreme Court, i n [|//Swann// v. //Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education//], upholds busing as a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools. Although largely unwelcome (and sometimes violently opposed) in local school districts, court-ordered busing plans in cities such as Charlotte, Boston, and Denver continue until the late 1990s.
 * __1971-__** The Rev. Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity)([]) an influential movement emphasizing black African-American economic advancement and education.
 * __1971-__** Fifteen African American members of Congress from the Congressional Black Caucus ([]) to present a unified African American voice in Congress.
 * __1972-__** The Equal Employment Oppurtunity Act([]) is passed, prohibiting job discrimination on the basis of, among other things race and laying the groundwork for affirmative action.
 * __1972-__** Barbara Jordan ([]) (D-Texas) becomes the first African-American woman from a Southern State to be elected to the U.S. House of Rep. She will serve three terms in Congress.
 * __1977-__** Andrew Young ([]) becomes the first African-American person to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
 * __1978-__** In Regents of the University of California v Bakke([]), the Supreme Court rules against universities using fixed racial quotas in making admissions decisions, a challenge to affirmative action.
 * __1978-__** Seattle becomes the largest city in the United States to desegregate its schools without a court order; nearly one-quarter of the school district's students are bused as part of the "Seattle Plan([])." Two months later, voters pass an anti-busing initiative. It is later ruled unconstitutional.