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Essay / The Study of Affirmative Action - 1398
The Study of Supreme Court Cases Concerning Affirmative ActionThe history of majority rights in the United States dates back to the creation of the United States Constitution United. Although barely recognized at the time, it has become the contemporary issue of the United States since the Civil War. To this day, civil rights are still fought for and discrimination still exists throughout the United States; However, affirmative action is one of the major victories won by minorities in their sermon for equal rights. First initiated in the 1960s with President John F. Kennedy's Executive Order Number 10925, Equal Employment Opportunity for All Races implemented the Civil Rights Act. This policy was again reaffirmed with Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 which "required government contracts to take affirmative action toward minority applicants in all aspects of employment and hiring" (Stewart 2014). The policy of affirmative action was so well implemented that calls for “reverse racism” still appeared throughout the United States today. I saw this firsthand when a friend of mine with a 2200+ on the SAT, a GPA near 4.0, and lots of extracurricular activities was waitlisted during the Emory application process, while than an African American woman with much lower stats than my friend. all avenues were accepted without hesitation. In fact, almost all of my other friends with similar characteristics were rejected or waitlisted at Emory, while almost all of the African Americans at my school who applied there from my school were accepted. As a seventeen-year-old African American applying to college next year, you would think I would love affirmative action, and I did for a while. That is until I... middle of paper ... like my friend is accepted into colleges not based on his race or ethnicity, but rather on his hard work. Works Cited Stewart, Chuck. (2014). positive action. In the American government. Retrieved March 25, 2014 from http://americangovernment.abc-clio.com/ Baldwin, B. (2009). DIVERSITY COLORBLIND: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF “RACE” IN THE POSTBAKKE ERA. Albany Law Review, 72(4), 863-890. Fourteenth Amendment -- Equal Protection Clause -- Affirmative Action by Public Universities – Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. (2013). Harvard Law Review, 127(1), 258-267.Streetlaw. (2014). Landmark Cases from the United States Supreme Court. Retrieved April 1, 2014 from http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Page/608/Background_Summary__Questions_02-241. Grutter against Bollinger (04/01/03). (April 1, 2003). Retrieved April 20, 2014 |, from 02-241.Grutter c. Bollinger (04/01/03)