Does Affirmative Action Affect Everyone? Laws Of Change!
Affirmative Action - was created to bring diversity and opportunity for inclusion not just in the work place but also in schools for women and other "races". Affirmative action is defined as a set of procedures designed to; eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants. Post slavery there was a large amount of segregation that took place and a lot of men from various backgrounds were looking for employment and were unable to fairly attain job positions within certain establishment. In order to create a form of equality President John F Kennedy Executive order (E.O.)10925 was created for federal contractors to hire those of various ethnicity in the job fields that were available. That was the beginning of the establishment of equal employment opportunity. In 1964 the Equal Opportunity act was fully established, business with 15 or more employees were prohibited from hiring people of the same "race" they needed to hire outside of their "race"