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2. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration to groups considered or classified as historically excluded, specifically racial minorities and women. [1] [2] These programs tend to focus on access to education and employment in order to ...

3. Affirmative action - Wikipedia

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   Affirmative action in New Zealand is most often done indirecttly by encouraging those in groups favored by affirmative action to get jobs in sectors they are underrepresented in. Diversity Awards NZ is an organization in New Zealand whose goal is to " celebrate excellence in workplace diversity, equity and inclusion."

4. Revised Philadelphia Plan - Wikipedia

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   The plan was quickly extended to other cities. In 1971, the Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania challenged the plan and Executive Order 11246 by arguing that it was beyond the President's constitutional authority, that it was inconsistent with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that it was inconsistent with the ...

5. What is affirmative action? Policy explained in simple terms

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   James defined what affirmative action is in its most basic form. " (It) is a policy that encourages state institutions to take affirmative action to make sure their processes are fair," she ...

6. Affirmative Action Fast Facts - AOL

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   The state of Texas replaced its affirmative action plan with a percentage plan that guarantees the top 10% of high-school graduates a spot in any state university in Texas. California and Florida ...

7. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

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   Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

8. A brief history of affirmative action…for white people - AOL

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   OPINION: As the Supreme Court hears arguments that will likely lead to the end of affirmative action, ... it was a government-approved affirmative action plan. 1944: Soldiers Report a White ...

9. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia

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   Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe wrote in 1979, "the Court thus upheld the kind of affirmative action plan used by most American colleges and universities, and disallowed only the unusually mechanical—some would say unusually candid, others would say unusually impolitic—approach taken by the Medical School" of UC Davis.