Is Affirmative Action Legal

When President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, which states, ‘ The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of their race, creed, color, or national origin’; this act established a Presidential Committee for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). Relatively two-year later, President Kennedy, delivered his civil rights speech making comments that included “the Second Reconstruction, a coherent effort by all three branches of the government to secure blacks their full rights”. This speech …

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