2008 Fall Critical Thinking Research Topic: Affirmative Action

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---http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html--- ---The Origin of Affirmative Action--- ---This website gives an overview of what helps to make up the basis of Affirmative Action. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments of the Constitution. It deals with the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial. The trial of Brown vs. Board of Education. Affirmative Action was first introduced in John F. Kennedy's Executive order 10925 speech. Acts passed in support of Affirmative Action included the 1964 Civil rights act and the 1965 voters right act. It also briefly includes a section of why people are against it. The source of publication came from the National Organization of Women.---

---Evan---