1. History of Affirmative Action
... Lyndon Johnson, would go on to establish the most important civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The year was 1964, crisis had stretched itself across the globe, and the United States was in the thick of it. One of the most revered presidents in history had been brutally assassinated just a year earlier, the demand for ... individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." At the same time, Senator Robert Dole and Representative Cha...
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