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Ward Connerly: I was born in Leesville, Louisiana, in 1939, and at that time, the state of Louisiana would place the race of people on birth certificates. There was a “C” on mine.
Connerly, appointed to the regents by former Gov. Pete Wilson in the 1990s, remains on the bad side of many liberals. He has taken his anti-affirmative-action campaign on the road, winning passage ...
Even at his final meeting as a member of the University of California's Board of Regents, Ward Connerly was doing what he had done through much of his 12-year tenure there: focusing on the ...
At 81, Ward Connerly is back in the saddle. Nearly a quarter-century ago, as a member of the University of California’s Board of Regents, Mr. Connerly got an inside look at the “corruption ...
Ward Connerly, the ex-University of California regent who fought to end affirmative action in 1996, has resurfaced to fight Proposition 16 which would allow the state's public universities to use race ...
Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who led successful efforts in California and Washington State to outlaw affirmative action in college admissions, will not seek another 12-year ...
Yet according to Ward Connerly, longtime leader and mastermind of the anti-affirmative-action movement, resistance to the measure was not just fierce but vicious, even by the standards of ...
Ward Connerly , whose known as having a career of controversy, is retiring and will attend his last meeting of the UC Board of Regents Wed. Jan. 19, 2005.
Ward Connerly is founder and President of the American Civil Rights Institute – a national, not-for-profit organization aimed at educating the public about the need to move beyond race and ...
Equal opportunity activist Ward Connerly responded to a California board's claims that offering reparations for Black state residents would not only stimulate the economy, but would also put a ...