The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Consolidated Brief of Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr. et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents in Gratz v. Bollinger, et al.

Legal Brief - February 19, 2003 -

• Integration of military and officer corps
  
• Diverse officer corps "essential" to military's ability to perform principal mission of providing national security
  
• ROTC directly affected by college make-up
  
• Service academies and ROTC use limited race-conscious recruiting
  
• Racial tensions during the Vietnam War and into the 1970s severely affected officers' ability to perform
  
• Race-conscious admissions are constitutional