Personal recollection on affirmative action cases and civil‑rights travel

Personal recollection on affirmative action cases and civil‑rights travel The passage is a memoir‑style narrative describing the author’s experiences with civil‑rights travel and involvement in historic affirmative‑action lawsuits. It contains no concrete new allegations, financial flows, or actionable leads involving powerful actors, and the information is already public knowledge. Key insights: Author traveled to the Deep South in the early 1960s and 1965 as a law‑school observer/recruiter.; Describes personal views on affirmative action and its theoretical vs. practical tensions.; Mentions participation in DeFunis (1974) and Bakke (1997) Supreme Court cases.