Students concerned about preserving the legal protections for minorities that the American civil rights movement achieved in the '60s and '70s started the Civil Rights Law Journal in 1990. The Journal's first editor-in-chief prefaced the Journal's inaugural volume with the assertion, "[The] Supreme Court will no longer act as a major guardian of minority rights. Because minority groups must now travel the path alone, George Mason University School of Law has created the Civil Rights Law Journal to provide guidance and to serve as a forum for civil rights issues."