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It was this sorry picture -- and the mounting pressure from
Blacks -- which led schools like Davis to set up their special programs.

The problem was to construct a program which would lead to a
reversal of the discrimination that has burdened non-whites since
before the Mayflower arrived, to reverse the 200-year-old quota system
that has guaranteed that pale males would enjoy A monopoly on good
jobs, on seats in Colleges and Universities, on all of the benefits
the United States promises the many and delivers only to the few.

Even the golden state of California was implicated in this
bigotry. Between 1866 and World War I, only one Black student
graduated from the University's Medical School in San Francisco.
Blacks were once not even permitted to live on the Campus at Davis.
In other cases, the California Supreme Court which affirmed Bakke
has held that the State unconstituttionally deprived minorities of
an equal education. It is difficult to understand how the State,
having handicapped minorities early on in their education, can

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