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This Friday (April 3) is the deadline for submissions for a conference at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, on September 22-24, 2009, on the subject "Affirmative Action at Forty: Requiem or Renaissance?" Marking the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan, the conference seeks both historical and policy-oriented papers, and will include sessions devoted to undergraduate and law student work.
The detailed call for papers is here.
(Image: Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1969).