Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Organizational History
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection Summary
Collection Title: California Civil Rights Initiative records
Date (inclusive): 1990-1996
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2005/179
c
Creators:
Wood, Thomas E., 1946-
Custred, Harry Glynn,
1939-
Extent:
4 cartons
5 linear feet
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
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.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
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.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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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
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University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
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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
Separated Material
Audiovisual materials have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft
Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog
Connerly, Ward, 1939-
California. Proposition 209
(1996)
Affirmative action programs in education--Law
and legislation--California.
Affirmative action programs--Law and
legislation--California
Discrimination in employment--Law and
legislation--California
Discrimination in higher education--Law and
legislation--California
Campaign literature--California--20th
Century
Clippings--California--20th Century
Press Releases--California--20th
Century
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The California Civil Rights Initiative materials were given to The Bancroft Library by
Glynn H. Custred, Jr. in 2000 and 2005.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Processing Information
Processed by Linda Koistinen in 2010.
Organizational History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.