California Civil Rights Initiative records, 1990-1996

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Summary

Title:
California Civil Rights Initiative records
Dates:
1990-1996
Creators:
Wood, Thomas E., 1946- Custred, Harry Glynn, 1939-
Abstract:
The California Civil Rights Initiative Records document the history of this anti-affirmative action ballot measure from the first attempt at placing it on the California ballot in 1991, through the successful campaign for the 1996 version of the initiative, Proposition 209.
Extent:
4 cartons 5 linear feet
Language:
Collection materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California Civil Rights Initiative Records, BANC MSS 2005/179 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The California Civil Rights Initiative Records document the history of this anti-affirmative action ballot measure from the first attempt at placing it on the California ballot in 1991, through the successful campaign for the 1996 version of the initiative, Proposition 209.

The collection has been divided into five series: Administrative Records; Correspondence; Affirmative Action Resources; Clippings; and News Summaries. Administrative papers include the development of the initiative through several drafts; organizational and financial records and promotional materials. Correspondence consists of letters, emails, and fax transmissions. Most correspondents are supporters of the initiative. Affirmative action resources provide background information on topics such as, higher education, race, ethnicity, and gender inequity; and immigration and affirmative action victims' cases. Material from the California State University system, the California Association of Scholars (CAS), and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) form the bulk of affirmative action materials. Print media coverage of the initiative and related issues is provided through news clippings and news summaries.

Biographical / historical:

The California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) was co-authored and managed by Glynn Custred and Thomas E. Wood. They began work on the anti-affirmative action legislative initiative in 1991 and developed the campaign for CCRI from that time to 1996 when California voters approved Proposition 209. Their intention in bringing this initiative to the public was to end affirmative action gender and race quotas and preferences in state employment, contracting, and education in California.

Harry Glynn Custred, a professor of anthropology at California State University, Hayward, received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University. He has received many awards, scholarships, and grants including a Fulbright teaching grant in 1992 to conduct a seminar at the National Institute of Anthropology of Buenos Aires in Argentina on the topic of ethnicity and nationalism. At the time of the initiative campaign, Dr. Custred was a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the California Association of Scholars. His writing includes numerous articles dealing with Andean ethnography, language use in Transylvania, and language boundaries in South America. He co-edited and contributed to the book, Land and Power in Latin America (1979).

Thomas E. Wood, co-author and co-principal of the CCRI with Glynn Custred, was the Executive Director of the California Association of Scholars (CAS) at the time of the CCRI campaign. Wood received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. His doctoral thesis, Empiricism and Current Linguistic Theory, examined the philosophy of language and linguistic theory. Wood taught in the Departments of Philosophy and Religion at California State University, Fresno and the State University of New York, New Paltz. He was also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco from 1989 to 1993. His writing includes three books published by the University of Hawaii Press for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy: The Mandukya Upanisad and the Agama Sastra (1990), Mind Only (1991) and Nagarjunian Disputations (1994).

--Taken from CCRI, California Civil Rights Initiative flyer, "Thomas E. Wood," circa 1995, California Civil Rights Initiative Records, BANC MSS 2005/179 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Acquisition information:
The California Civil Rights Initiative materials were given to The Bancroft Library by Glynn H. Custred, Jr. in 2000 and 2005.
Processing information:

Processed by Linda Koistinen in 2010.

Accruals:

No additions are expected.

Physical location:
Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Linda Koistinen
Date Prepared:
© 2010
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: February 2011

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California Civil Rights Initiative Records, BANC MSS 2005/179 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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