C. Crittendon, a Bolivar County black, not only joined with other black men in voting and serving on the county jury, but he was actually elected a county supervisor. In that capacity, he oversaw the construction of the new county courthouse in the county seat at Cleveland in 1872.

It was OCR’s policy denying Jews the protection of Title VI that largely accounted for the agency’s decision to dismiss the complaint that the (ZOA) filed in 2004 on behalf of Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). UCI students had been subjected to years of anti Semitic harassment and intimidation, described in detail in the ZOA’s 11 page complaint to OCR. Campus programs with titles such as “A World Without Israel” and “Israel: The 4th Reich” routinely demonized Jews and Israel.