Race and Public Policy - 9:30-11:00 a.m.

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Nancy Banks, Columbia University
"The Struggle over Affirmative Action in the New York City Building Trades, 1961-1976"

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Mentor: Tom Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania Professor of History and Sociology

Christopher Schmidt, Harvard University
"Postwar Liberalism and the Origins of Brown v. Board of Education"

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Mentor: Michael Klarman, University of Virginia Professor of Law and History