| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.2

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Barbara A. Perry. The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 232. Bibliographic essay. Index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $16.95.
Barbara A. Perry's The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases analyzes two important 2003 Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action in education. This volume, published as part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series from the University of Kansas, provides the legal and historical context for Gratz v. Bollinger et al. and Grutter v. Bollinger et al., which challenged the University of Michigan's admissions practices for undergraduates and law-school applicants.	1
Jennifer Gratz and Barbara Grutter, two white women who were denied admission to the university's undergraduate and law-school programs, respectively, sued the University of Michigan in 1997. Both plaintiffs claimed that they had been denied their Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection of the laws and their rights under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; both sued with the legal assistance of the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a conservative public-litigation organization dedicated to ending racial preferences. The CIR's involvement portended the intervention of numerous interested third parties in these two cases; when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the cases in 2002, they received nearly one hundred amici curiae briefs.	. . .

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