Affirmative Action Affirmative action was created in an effort to help minorities leap the discriminative barriers that were ever so present when the bill was first enacted, in 1965. At this time, the country was in the wake of nation-wide civil rights demonstrations, and racial tension was at an all time high. White males occupied most of the corporate, executive, and managerial positions that controlled the hiring and firing of employees. The U.S. Government, in 1965, …showed first 75 words of 943 total…

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