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Affirmative Action: Equal Protection of the Laws?
Every individual has unalienable rights to equal educational and employment opportunities to further their goals. Affirmative action is an active and ambitious effort to promote the education and welfare of minorities and women. This colossal syllabus was designed by the un-presidential efforts of John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, to form a society where every person has equal opportunity to succeed in their goals, as well as opportunities to formulate an excellent living. With the plan, every individual will be surrounded with all races in his/her workplace or location of study. Since its origins in the 1960s as a remedial response to minority under-representation in the workplace and government contracting, affirmative action has evolved to include strategies to increase diversity on campuses. Along the way it has become a symbol of our public policy debate about equity, race, ethnicity...
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