Screen LibraryConstructing affirmative action：the struggle for equal employment opportunity
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University Press of Kentucky,
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| Publisher Address: | Lexington, K.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 248 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813129976 (hbk.) 0813129974 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813129983 (ebook) 0813129982 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | F249 |
| CLC: | F249.712 |
| Call Number: | F249.712/G626 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index. Introduction -- Fighting bureaucratic inertia, 1956-1960 -- Becoming the urban crisis, 1961-1963 -- Grasping at solutions, 1964-1967 -- Pushing the envelope : the Philadelphia plans, 1967-1969 -- Constructing affirmative action, 1970-1973 -- Conclusion : affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. Between 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson defined affirmative action as a legitimate federal goal, and 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon named one of affirmative action's chief antagonists the head of the Department of Labor, government officials at all levels addressed racial economic inequality in earnest. Providing members of historically disadvantaged groups an equal chance at obtaining limited and competitive positions, affirmative action had the potential to alienate large numbers of white Americans, even those who had viewed school desegregation and voting rights in a positiv |