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Article: STRATEGIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT NOW WORK AGAINST IT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 15, 1998
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When Katuria Smith's frustration with her rejection by the University of Washington Law School peaked, she put a call into the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights.
The 32-year-old ((age)) white woman could not have reached out to a law firm more finely attuned to her complaints of reverse discrimination.
Over the past eight years, the well-funded, libertarian-leaning non-profit firm has been dispatching its attorneys around the country to take on government institutions that employ race-based affirmative action policies.
Its stated aim is to place the issue of race, like religion, beyond the reach of government.
And to ...