Chris Ghilarducci Affirmative Action Affirmative Action was started to eliminate discrimination in the workplace by hiring workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. It began in 1961 by president Kennedy when he issued executive order number 10925 to make federal contractors take affirmative action (Altschiller, p.5). The goal of affirmative action is to allow "the victims of discriminatory conduct to the position they would have occupied in the absence of that conduct" Rehnquist said. Should such policies be legal …showed first 75 words of 558 total…

…showed last 75 words of 558 total…race shouldn't be a factor. It shouldn't get you a position or lose you a position. Works Cited Altschiller, Donald Ed. Affirmative Action New York: The H.W. Wilson Company,1991. Carter, Stephen L. Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby Basic Books, New York, New York, 1991. Hill, Herbert Race, Affirmative Action, and the Constitution McGraw- Hill, Inc., 1992 Terkel, Struds Race: How Whites and Blacks think and feel about the American obsession The New Press, New York 1992.