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Presidents And Affirmative Action
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard
University that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to
increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensure that
minorities were recruited to have real opportunities to be hired and then
eventually get a promotion.
In 1969, the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of the
Construction Department so President Richard M. Nixon decided to encorporate a
system of "goals and timetables" to evaluate federal construction companies
accor ....
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