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Affirmative Action
Title: Affirmative Action
Category: Society & Culture
Details: Words: 1677 | Pages: 7.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Affirmative Action
After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it became
apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests,
prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided
something needed to be done to remedy these flaws. On September 24, 1965, he issued
Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors "to take
Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants are employed . . . without regard to their race,
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…showed last 75 words of 1677 total…reach points that our history has never seen.
Works Cited
"Affirmative Action at the University of California at Berkeley"
Online. http://pwa.acusd.edu/~e_cook/ucb-95.html
"Civil Rights" Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. (1996).
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United States. Commission on Civil Rights. Affirmative Action in the
1980's: Dismantling the Process of Discrimination. Washington: 1981.
United States. Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights. Private Sector Affirmative Action: Omaha. Washington: 1979.
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