RESOLUTION 27: Hopwood Appeal

WHEREAS THE LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS (LULAC) supports the purpose of fostering and enlarging the opportunities for training, education, civil rights, job opportunities, housing, economic development, and welfare of all Hispanics in the United States; and,

WHEREAS, LULAC is committed to the constant vigilance of administration and instructional practices in schools which deprive persons of educational opportunities, and;

WHEREAS, LULAC believes that education is the foundation of this great nation and that LULAC is obligated to protect and assure the right of the people in education and the workplace, and;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the 1998 National Assembly convened in Dallas, Texas on the 4th day of July, 1998, will contact the office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio, Texas, for the purpose of joining in the appeal of the Hopwood decision and that LULAC will support all efforts by MALDEF to resist attacks on affirmative action.

Approved this 4th day of July, 1998.

Rick Dovalina
LULAC National President

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