Affirmative action was created in order to give equal opportunity to everybody, not to choose the minority over the majority. ... Affirmative action allows the minority with the same qualifications to be chosen over a Caucasian man with the same qualifications in order to diversify the organization or business (Anderson). ... Affirmative action allows for businesses and campuses to be diverse. ... But ever since affirmative action has come into the picture, the rate of minorities in college and in the business world has risen dramatically (Affirmative). ... To get rid of affirmative action...

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Specifically, AA is a series of social policies and statutes that regulate activities and laws with the primary intent to achieve equity and increase opportunity for all. ... The Kennedy EO also created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. ... The Civil Rights Act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). As a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act, Johnson issued EO 11246, which required expansion of job opportunities for minorities in government contracting firms. ... Also in 1971, Nixon, under EO 11625 direct federal agencies to develop comprehensive plans and pro...

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King's beliefs in equal rights and equal opportunities were the driving forces in the African American fight for justice. ... Wollstonecraft is articulating and implying that when women rely on their looks, they are losing the opportunity to gain and succeed from a talent or skill. ... Along with medical careers, she asserts that if women were more educated in the field of business, then they would not degrade themselves with prostitution or marry a man simply for support or stability (Jacobus 790-791). Wollstonecraft believes that women should be given the right to hold jobs of equal ...

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First, it had a new attitude toward the economy and business. The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. ... For Johnson and universalists all mankind possessed the same hopes and the same fears, and should be given the same opportunities. In addition to universalism, Johnson sought to build a consensus between the business community and his programs. ... The first was affirmative action sought not only to provide blacks equal opportunity, but also to teach and train them to get involved in "mainstream American business, ...

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The Movement's crowning legislative achievement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination in places of public accommodation, enforced the Constitutional right to vote, established a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs. ... Furthermore, the Civil Rights Movement brought about the opportunity for African American advances in employment and education and the creation of a new Black middle class. ... Employment and educational opportunities for African Americans have been increasing throughout the pa...

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Around this Era, blacks owned small businesses around the community; they were dependent on African Americans in the neighborhood for business success. On the other hand, whites owned larger businesses, and controlled almost everything else. ... Washington once said, "Blacks should specialize in their traits in order to develop successful black businesses and develop economic stability.... Although women continued to play basketball, they were unable to enjoy many of the opportunities that the game offered Black men, including national recognition and real money. ...

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Soon, African Americans started to receive fair advantages like, high paying jobs, the right to a fair education and many other opportunities. ... In today's society there are so many opportunities for African Americans, that the possibilities are endless. ... African Americans own their own businesses, which once was unheard of. ... The number of black owned businesses has skyrocketed from 424,165 to 620,912 between 1987 and 1992 (LMEA). ...

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Rosa Parks, along with other African Americans used the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as a resource to create opportunities and help the lives of many African Americans. ... Rosa Parks created more opportunities for African Americans with a single act of bravery. ... People of all races now enjoy unprecedented access to business and education opportunities. ... Rosa Parks created great opportunities and pushed the civil rights movement for our nation to flourish into the strong country it is today....

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To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and allowed blacks to become self-employed, while owning their own land, or small business. ... His speaking tours and private persuasion tried to equalize public educational opportunities and to reduce racial violence. ... The man said that black boys and girls were permitted to enter, and poor students were given an opportunity of working for their board, if they had not money to pay for it. ... Washington encouraged black progress in economic and educational ...

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Reading it today, it seems like Washington's used that opportunity to pitch the new Negro, making sure to express the economic potential of the progressive negro, to southern business men at the convention. Washington treated the dialogue about race almost like a business negotiation by using the idea that both parties would benefit from the uplifting of black people. ... "Whatever other sins the south may be called to bear, when it comes to business pure and simple, it is in the south that he negro is given a man's chance....

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The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... While reading this poem, it's easy to see that this family is and has been in the farming business for generations, which is stressed in the line, "we planted corn one Spring at Acu/we planted several times/ but this time was different." This line stresses the idea that the family, and more the father and son, plant corn every Spring together as a business and tradition. ... In a further stanza, the line, ...

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African American females are unique human beings. Like other women, they are burdened with the problems of being women in a male-dominated society that does not fully value the feminine perspective. Unlike other women, they are also faced with issues resulting from long-standing negative, stereotypi...

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In a broader perspective, it was also a fight against unfair wages, job opportunities and lack of freedom, in addition to diminishing racism. ... However, to the people during the march, Kings words were not just referring to desegregation, but fair wages, job opportunities and freedom as well, all that came about with the idea of diminishing racism. ... The act itself was a big a step for America, and though we have progressed since the long movement that speared the act, there is still unfinished business that has yet to be addressed. ...

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Congressional Reconstruction in Mississippi was a time that saw an attempt to end white supremacy and also held many opportunities of racial equality for blacks, even to the point of black supremacy. ... Redeemers saw this as an opportunity to gain votes from some of the more moderate Republicans who were uncomfortable with black rule. ... Since Republicans were still in control of the government, Democrats used this as an opportunity to label Republicans as the cause of the economy's problems. ...

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Racism kept the newly freed black farmers from gaining hold of opportunity and economic freedom which resulted in wide spread poverty among the sharecroppers. ... White did not want to see blacks entering their realm of business and politics and Washington's approach pleased them because to the white upper class, it kept blacks in the service industry and well within their expected social class. ...

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This is your golden opportunity"5. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ...

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The governor of New York began to hire wardens that traveled around the city to inspect fireplaces and ovens in households and businesses. ... This firefighter had the opportunity to work plenty of overtime and was able to plan his future and can live a comfortable life working as a firefighter. ...

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Black Americans had no say in this matter especially in education, wartime affairs and efforts and businesses. ... I believe in equal opportunity for everyone, no matter what the circumstance or cost. ...

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African Americans now had a curfew, needed a permit to travel, and could not start their own business. ... Once heard again, on December 7th and 8th, 1953, the Court ruled that separate but equal schools are not valid because the learning materials may be equal but the opportunities are not. ...

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The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ... Martin Luther King discusses his hopes for the future and explains that a struggle for rights is also a struggle for opportunities. ...

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The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ... Martin Luther King discusses his hopes for the future and explains that a struggle for rights is also a struggle for opportunities. ...

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Black Americans had no say in this matter especially in education, wartime affairs and efforts and businesses. ... I believe in equal opportunity for everyone, no matter what the circumstance or cost. ...

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The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ... Martin Luther King discusses his hopes for the future and explains that a struggle for rights is also a struggle for opportunities. ...

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In the dawn of industrial development in America we also see the first men to get extremely wealthy from these new opportunities. ... After seeing certain businesses control the majority of a particular commerce, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was introduced to the country preventing corporations from controlling the majority of an industry. ...

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"I was in the show business, trying to get a big audience for the Government on TV by killing real people with live ammunition, something the other advertisers were not free to do" (57). ... The civil rights movement was a huge movement to secure African Americans with equal rights and opportunities. ...

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