1. Father of affimative action
He was then drafted for WWII in which he took a bullet in the chest for a country that did not consider him full citizen due to race. ... We knew we needed to save the one country that would allow us to move on if we fought for our rights so it wasn't that hard to fight for our country ." ... Married and with five children, his wife could not take the pressures of not finding a job because of her color and jumps off of the Golden State Bridge. ... He said that by his wife committing suicide he had to press on harder and by the end of the 60's he was the Assistant Secretary of Labor...
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