Sweetheart, listen up: the point of the book is that people were using their admissions quota process to discriminate BEFORE Affirmative Action had been invented. This was the 1920s.

I'm not going to say you can't post until you have your BA/BS (stop it! y'all behave) but the organizers of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s were the leaders of the Black Middle Class. They were capital-C Captialists, not Marxists, and were typically the businessmen and women whose incomes were not dependent on whites so they could afford the courage of their convictions. Freedom isn't free and these people were typically the descendants of black people who'd been working to improve their economic lives for generations. Ministers, bankers, funeral directors, doctors, lawyers, barbers and beauty parlor owners, dentists: those were the people with money to send their kids to private colleges and who often were very upset when those kids risked their tuition money and joined SNCC, which was thought to be "dangerously radical" by some elders of the movement. (Their class sentiments worked against their social interests.) There's even a scathing book about the Black Bourgeoisie called, oddly enough, Black Bourgeoisie, by E. Franklin Frasier that you can read if you'd like to learn more: <link> but you might enjoy Lawrence Otis Graham's Member of the Club more. He went to Princeton and Harvard in the 80s: <link>