Creating Equal, Ward Connerly
Creating Equal, Ward Connerly
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Creating Equal
My Fight against Race Preferences

Author: Ward Connerly

Narrator: Ward Connely

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2009

Synopsis

This is the story of a man who searched his conscience, decided that the American Dream should be colorblind, and then set out to change the rules. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part road map, Creating Equal tells how a black man fought against affirmative action in California and Washington, D.C.It begins in segregated Louisiana with a hardworking, resilient family that refused to be destroyed by personal tragedy or to be defined by race. This is where Ward Connerly grew up. In 1993, he would be called to make the most difficult decision of his life: to convince the regents of the University of California to end affirmative action. Two years later, he did the same thing for Washington, D.C.

About Ward Connerly

Ward Connerly is the founder and the president of the American Civil Rights Institute and author of Creating Equal: My Fight against Race Preferences and Lessons from My Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character. He has been inducted as a lifetime member into the California Building Industry Hall of Fame and has been a member of the Rotary Club of Sacramento for over fifteen years. In addition to receiving numerous awards, he has been profiled on 60 Minutes, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek magazine, the cover of Parade magazine, and virtually every major news magazine in America. He has also appeared on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Crossfire, Hannity & Colmes, Meet the Press, Dateline, NBC Nightly News,CNN, and C-SPAN.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on June 10, 2013

Ward Connerly is a crusader, but a crusader who has picked the a battle that matters. A black man born in the south but raised in the West, Connerly becomes a unique figure in the fight for equal rights against racial preferences. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, part autobiography......more

Goodreads review by Feisty Harriet on January 05, 2015

I read an excerpt from this book years ago for a college class, and wish I’d read the rest of the book then instead of waiting. Connerly was a key supporter of ending affirmative action in California, and then Washington and Florida culminating in a nation-wide end of the policy which had good inten......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 14, 2015

War's story of standing up and fighting for his beliefs about advancing the african american . The hardest part of staying your course is the people you are helping are your biggest enemies.......more

Goodreads review by Thinker on October 16, 2008

I already knew much of what Ward wrote about in this book. It is quite inspiring because of the struggle that he went through to get race preferences in California banned.......more

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