Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “Whitewash: The 50-year campaign to undo the progress of the civil rights movement, at least in higher education, in the name of ‘colorblindness,’” in the March 17 issue of The New York Times Magazine should be recommended reading. We do not endorse everything she says but believe she tells an important story.

She reviews the legal assault on affirmative action in higher education beginning with the United States Supreme Court’s 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision and extending through last term’s Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision that declared race-conscious admissions at public universities to be unconstitutional.