AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Affirmative action was born out of the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The purpose of affirmative action was to give special consideration for minorities and women in the selection for employment, educational and contracting opportunities. Government institutions and businesses usually set goals or timetables to fulfill their goal for increased diversity in their institutions. Generally affirmative action calls that when faced with two general equal applicants that the minority or …showed first 75 words of 1637 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1637 total…in other states. Pat Buchanan stated "Affirmative action-no matter how benign its original purpose belongs in the same graveyard as its cousin, the late Jim Crow. It is time to put an end to hyphenated Americanism. It is time that together, we Americans advance toward the great and good ideal that no matter where are kinsfolk advance came from we are all one American family and one people with the same constitutional and civil rights.