This volume chronicles the progress of the administration, executive branch agencies, and Congress in ending discrimination and advancing civil rights. The study has 21 chapters in 2 parts. Part one includes: (1) "Rights at Risk"; and (2) "Recommendations of the Commission." Part two includes a series of working papers prepared by leading civil rights and public interest experts: (3) "Federal Judicial Nominations and Confirmations during the Last Two Years of the Clinton Administration" (Elliot M. Mincberg); (4) "Recent Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Congress' Ability To Redress Employment Discrimination" (Michael H. Gottesman); (5) "The New Legal Attack on Educational Diversity in America's Elementary and Secondary Schools" (John Charles Boger); (6) "Diversity in Higher Education: A Continuing Agenda" (Arthur L. Coleman); (7) "Urban Fragmentation as a Barrier to Equal Opportunity" (John A. Powell and Kathleen M. Graham); (8) "Federal Fair Housing Enforcement at a Crossroads: The Clinton Legacy and the Challenges Ahead" (John P. Relman); (9) "The Current Civil Rights Challenge for the Growing Latino Community: Inclusion and Participation in Political Life" (Marisa J. Demeo); (10) "Voting Rights" (Armand Derfner); (11) "Affirmative Action in Public Contracting: The Final Years of the Clinton Administration" (Georgina Verdugo); (12) "Equal Employment Opportunity: EEOC and OFCCP" (Nancy Kreiter); (13) "Federal Action To Confront Hate Violence in the Bush Administration: A Firm Foundation on Which To Build or a Struggle to Maintain the Status Quo?" (Michael Lieberman); (14) "Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System" (Ronald Weich and Carlos Angulo); (15) "Mixed Reviews on Lesbian and Gay Rights for Bush's First Year" (Lou Chibbaro, Jr.); (16) "High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind" (Chester Hartman); (17) "Limited English Proficient Students and High-Stakes Accountability Systems" (Jorge Ruiz de Velasco and Michael Fix); (18) "New Research on Special Education and Minority Students with Implications for Federal Education Policy Enforcement" (Daniel J. Losen); (19) "Blueprint for Gender Equity in Education" (Verna Williams); (20) "The Progress and Proposals for a Civil Rights Agenda in the Communications Polity Arena" (Mark Lloyd); and (21) "The Adverse Consequences of a New Federal Direction" (Gary D. Bass, Kay Guinane, Reece Rushing, and Ellen Taylor). (SM)