... that affirmative action is traceable back to the Civil War, the civil rights movement pushed affirmative action into the American media and governmental issues beginning in the 1950's. While Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were the first to actually implement such procedures, President Abraham Lincoln started the earliest version of affirmative action by enacting the Emancipation Proclamation. This edict initiated ... African-Americans and upper-middle class white women with their education. Neither of these two groups needs the help of a diversity program since they al...

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