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Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity
β Scribed by David Hamilton Golland
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- University Press of Kentucky
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- 2011
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- English
- Leaves
- 248
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- Civil Rights and Struggle
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- Library
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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.
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