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Civil Rights Legislative Report Card: 109th Congress, First Session
NAACP Washington Bureau

African-Americans and High-Tech Jobs
Edited by Cecilia Conrad, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

The Black Vote in 2004
By David Bositis, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Race and Class Penalties in Crack Cocaine Sentencing
By Michael Coyle, The Sentencing Project

State Rates of Incarceration by Race, 2004
The Sentencing Project

Civil Rights Voting Record: 109th Congress, First Session
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Bringing a Nation Online: The Importance of Federal Leadership
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Turning Right: Judicial Selection and the Politics of Power
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund

Justice on Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund

Civil Rights Voting Record: 108th Congress, Full Session
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Dissecting The Achievement Gap: Racial Fault Lines In NYC Regents Diploma Rates
New York City Council Education Committee, May 26, 2005

New York Voter Registration Form
New York City Board of Elections

New York Voter Registration And Voting
New York City Board of Elections

New Jersey Voter Rights Handbook
New Jersey Division of Elections

A Poverty of Aspirations
Remarks of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. Conference of Mayors, January 25, 2006

Largest 50 Private Sector Employers in New York State
New York State Department of Labor

How Our Laws are Made
Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives

Members of U.S. House of Representatives, 109th Congress
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate Directory, 109th Congress
U.S. Senate

NYC City Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

New York County (Manhattan) Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

Kings County (Brooklyn) Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

Queens County (Queens) Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

New Jersey Census Data
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Bronx County (Bronx) Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

Richmond County (Staten Island) Census Data 2000
New York State Data Center

Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Detention
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Prisoners of the Census: Electoral and Financial Consequences of Counting Prisoners Where They Go, Not Where They Come From
By Eric Lotke and Peter Wagner, Pace Law Review

Indiana Commission on the Social Status of Black Males: 2004-2005 Annual Report
State of Indiana

Black Youth and Mass Media: Current Research and Emerging Questions
By Dr. S. Craig Watkins

Black Churches and Civic Traditions: Outreach, Activism, and the Politics of Faith-Based Ministries
By Frederick C. Harris

New Jersey Voter Registration Form
New Jersey Division on Elections

State of the States 2006: State Policy Developments and Trends
Stateline.org, Pew Charitable Trusts

Report on Discrminatory Practices Within the New Jersey State Police
New Jersey Legislative Black and Latino Caucus, 1999

Report of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee's Investigation of Racial Profiling and the New Jersey State Police
New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, 2001

Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian and Black Populations Since 2000
By William H. Frey, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution, March 2006

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