Black Students Rally at Mu ; Pro-Affirmative Action Protest Draws a Crowd.

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Speaking with urgency and warning of the return of segregation and a breakdown of civil rights since the 1960s, students and activists at the University of Missouri gathered yesterday against a state ballot initiative to make affirmative action illegal.

"Today we are here to say we have made a decision, and our decision is for equality," said Tristan Taylor, 24, an organizer of the group By Any Means Necessary, who drove with fellow organizers from Detroit to participate in the rally with MU students.

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Black Students Rally at Mu ; Pro-Affirmative Action Protest Draws a Crowd.

In 2007, the most high-profile advocate of the proposed "colorblind" constitutional amendment, Ward Connerly, helped pass a similar initiative in Michigan. Taylo...

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