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Affirmative Action refers to governmental regulations intended to promote access to education or employment for minorities and women). The goals of these policies are to encourage the public and private sectors to be more representative of the population.
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Fast Facts:
- March 6, 1961 Executive Order 10925 makes the first mention of "affirmative action"
- September 24, 1965 Executive Order 11246 enforces affirmative action for the first time
- June 23, 2003 The Supreme Court upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered in admission.
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Official Site: American Association For Affirmative Action
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Wikipedia: Affirmative Action
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National Organization For Women (NOW): NOW and Affirmative Action
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Official Site: American Civil Rights Institute
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The Daily Bruin Article: "Critiquing Affirmative Action" (2007)
The Daily Bruin - Critiquing affirmative actiondailybruin.ucla.edu
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Official Site: American Association For Affirmative Action
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Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action : Frequently... http://tinyurl.com/yf69kr6
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Where's the affirmative action?? Lol! RT @miss_oregon Any white girls free to go out of town this weekend?
@IstayWinning | November 09, 2009 07:39 AM -
Is the new late-night show on TBS an affirmative action thing? Doesn't seem to be all that merit based.
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Affirmative Action on Amazon | View All
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America - $16.95
<strong>A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understan...
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Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study - $17.00
This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, an...
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Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, And the Search for Justice - $19.95
""Understanding Affirmative Action" serves to fill a critical gap in the literature on affirmative action by giving a developed history of the policy development along with the current status of scholarship on the topic. The book has the po...
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Questions and Answers About Affirmative Action | View All | Ask a Question
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.
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- Article: Chicago Sun-Times:"A Lot More Than One Bridge Could Crumble Under GOP"
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- Mahalo's Guide to Jesse Jackson
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Affirmative Action Satire and Humor
- Wikipedia: Affirmative Action Bake Sale
- Feminists.com: "Affirmative Action Bake Sales" Shut Down Nationwide; Coercion and Censorship Replace Debate in Seattle (2003)
- Pesky the Rat: Bush Vows to End Affirmative Action for White Males (2003)
- The Onion: Strip Club Makes Commitment to Hire More Minorities (July 28, 2004)
- The Onion: The Affirmative-Action Decision (July 2, 2003)
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