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• Affirmative action
  ...ope. In addition, in a number of states, referenda have limited the use of affirmative action policies in those states. ...] in 1961, in which he called upon federal government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated duri
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• Affirmative action/Definition
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• Affirmative action/Bibliography
  *Belz, Herman. 1991. ''Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action''. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers. ...Faye J. and Cheryl VanDeVeer, eds. 2000. ''Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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• Affirmative action/Approval
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• Affirmative action/Related Articles
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• Affirmative action/External Links
  ...nford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Affirmative Action]
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• Affirmative action/Bibliography
  *Belz, Herman. 1991. ''Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action''. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers. ...Faye J. and Cheryl VanDeVeer, eds. 2000. ''Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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• Affirmative action/External Links
  ...nford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Affirmative Action]
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• Affirmative action
  ...ope. In addition, in a number of states, referenda have limited the use of affirmative action policies in those states. ...] in 1961, in which he called upon federal government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated duri
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• University/Related Articles
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• Social policy/Related Articles
  {{r|affirmative action}}
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• Carol M. Swain/Bibliography
  *Editor of an anthology of student essays, ''Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate'' (University of America Press, 1996)
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• U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor
  ...and Title II of the Higher Education Act; science and technology programs; affirmative action in higher education; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; all welf ...to equal employment opportunity and civil rights in employment, including affirmative action.
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• Abigail Thernstrom
  Abigail Thernstrom's 1987 work, ''Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights'' (Harvard University Press) won four awards, in
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• Feminist Majority Foundation
  ...The FMF is dedicated to achieving civil rights for all people, including affirmative action programs for women and people of color. The FMF supports lesbian, gay, bise
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• National Organization for Women
  * In 1967 NOW leads a successful fight to extend Affirmative Action in federal contracts to women.
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• David Duke
  ...se traitorous leaders of the Republican Party appointed this Black racist, affirmative action advocate to the head of the Republican party because this will lead to a hu
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• Eric Foner
  ...ums. Foner served as an expert for the University of Michigan's defense of affirmative action in its undergraduate and law school admissions ([[Gratz v. Bollinger]] and .../expert/foner.html] Expert report by Eric Foner for University of Michigan Affirmative Action cases
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• U.S. Department of State
  The department has pursued a sort of affirmative action in the early twentieth century for white male Democrats from the South in o ...e advanced at rates slightly higher than other eligible FSOs. The push for affirmative action increased when [[Bill Clinton]] became president in 1993; he called for a g
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• Richard Nixon/Bibliography
  ..., J. Larry "The Nixon Administration and the Revised Philadelphia Plan for Affirmative Action: A Study in Expanding Presidential Power and Divided Government" ''Presiden * Kotlowski, Dean J. ; "Richard Nixon and the Origins of Affirmative Action" ''The Historian''. Volume: 60. Issue: 3. 1998. pp. 523 ff. [http://www.que
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• Spoils system
  * Rubio, Philip F. ''A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000'' University Press of Mississippi, 2001 [http://www.questia.com/
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• Hoover Institution/Related Articles
  {{r|Robert Zelnick}} Affirmative action; race preferences; U.S. politics; Israeli-Palestinian dispute; media issues
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• Jesse Helms
  ...e political opportunism. He advocated and implemented privately controlled affirmative action, hiring and promoting blacks at WRAL-TV, but resisted activist or governmen
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• Library Research Service
  *All job listings must comply with the Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action guidelines.
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• Korematsu v. United States
  ...ct to strict scrutiny in ''[[Adarand v. Pena]]'', a 1995 case dealing with affirmative action.<ref>''Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena'', 515 U.S. 200 (1995)</ref> In a
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• Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
  ...ipating localities, as well as to place it in accordance with the recent [[affirmative action]] initiatives the Fairfax School Board has promoted. ...T in certain incoming classes). The commission concluded that a program of affirmative action is necessary to mitigate the underrepresentation, which caused controversy
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• Richard Nixon
  ...erous liberal programs. He initiated a new era of [[environmentalism]] and affirmative action. He was disgraced by his use of federal power to cover up the Watergate sca ...position. He distanced himself from militant blacks and instead promoted [[affirmative action]] quota plans in the construction trades, and set-asides for minority contr
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• New Deal Coalition
  ...ssues such as [[civil rights]], the [[Vietnam War]], abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, and urban riots tended to split the coalition and drive many members away. ...s was his emphasis on cultural issues (like his opposition to abortion and affirmative action), while Dukakis deemphasized social issues and stressed instead his manager
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• American conservatism
  ...llegal drugs, and before 1933 many supported the prohibition of alcohol. "Affirmative action" for blacks, women and minorities are often termed "quotas" and are opposed ...lind meritocracy now embraced by many conservatives as an alternative to [[affirmative action]] would have seemed quite radical to most U.S. conservatives in the 1950s.
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• Hilda Geiringer
  ...opment of written standards for faculty employment, and the creation of an Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee. ...The cost of the settlement came to $1.1 million do
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• History of education in the United States/Bibliography
  * Rossiter, Margaret W. ''Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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• Betty Friedan
  ...ey successfully campaigned for a 1967 Executive Order extending the same [[affirmative action]] granted to blacks to women, and for a 1968 EEOC decision ruling illegal s
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• Republican Party (United States)
  ...{{cite news |last=Eilperin |first=Juliet |title=Watts Walks a Tightrope on Affirmative Action |publisher=[[The Washington Post]] |date=[[1998-05-12]] |url=http://www.was
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• Republican Party (United States), history
  ...dge" issues emerged in the mid 1990s-- immigration reform, welfare reform, affirmative action, English as an official language -- and the antagonistic positions taken by
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• Race (social)/Bibliography
  ...nwillingness to legislate endogamous group membership criteria for federal affirmative action programs despite strong pleas for such standards from those who must litiga Skidmore, Thomas E. "Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States." ''American Historical Review''
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• Ku Klux Klan
  ...outh had ended, the Klans shifted their focus to other issues, including [[affirmative action]], [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]], and especially [[Deseg
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• South Africa
  ...decision to emigrate, many cite the high crime rate and the government's [[affirmative action]] policies.
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• Democratic Party (United States), history
  ...reign policy, public education, global warming, judicial appointments, and affirmative action. Nevertheless, Gore's affiliation with Clinton and the DLC caused critics�
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