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Affirmative Action
Title: Affirmative Action
Category: Society & Culture
Details: Words: 410 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Affirmative Action
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard
University that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative action
to increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensure
that minorities were recruited to have real opportunities to be hired and
then eventually get a promotion.
In 1969, the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of
the Construction Department so President Richard M. Nixon decided to
encorporate a system of 'goals and …showed first 75 words of 410 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 410 total…have been many additions to the policy of affirmative
action. People from the Vietnam War, people with disabilties, and minority
groups have made gains in the workforce but more research needs to be
conducted as to the qualifications of all of these people to make sure that
race is not a determining factor in the giving and receiving of jobs. The
best person for the job, no matter what race, should be given the job.
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