A Civil Action

the others, and still just believe you have been completely fair". Johnson’s quote depicts the potentials of affirmative action such as bringing equality to education and employment. Before affirmative action, Africans, Hispanics, and women were segregated into low wage jobs which sparked outrage. The 1960s Civil Rights movement was a main cause to the birth of affirmative action. The goals of the policy were to provide equal opportunities to minority groups such as women, Hispanics, and other…

President Kennedy signed ‘Executive Order 10925’ and he announced affirmative action in 1961, “Take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Stewart, 2012)”, then President Lyndon Jonson expanded and put the details of affirmative action (“Ten Myths about Affirmative Action”, n.d.) Usually affirmative action can be defined as the hiring policy…

Furthermore, it grants them the ability to engage in collective bargaining and other collective actions (like striking or picketing). The act created the aforementioned National Labor Relations Board. Those covered by the Railway Labor Act, public employees, independent contractors, and agricultural employees do not receive coverage by the Wagner Act…

Affirmative action began as a necessity to help previously disadvantaged minorities gain equality. However, due to the dynamic ideas of equality and what is needed to achieve it, the policy has turned into something that hurts more than it helps in today’s society. There are multiple problems with it, such as reverse racism, not addressing the deeper societal problems, and it is condescending to minorities. Much of this comes from the consequences of birthplace and race; a theme also explored in…

pay a worker less, even if she did not learn about the unfair pay until years after the discrimination began. To make sure that people can effectively challenge unequal pay, the law signed by President Obama shortly after taking office amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so unfair pay complaints can be filed within one hundred and eighty days of a discriminatory paycheck and that one hundred and eighty days resets after every such paycheck is…

affirmative action needed because of the consequences of racial discrimination in the past or does it continue racial discrimination because it is making it harder for white males to get jobs and into school? In your own words, briefly summarize how one side would answer the topic question: Women and minority advocate groups may answer that in the past they have been discriminated against in the education system and the employment process and after everything they have faced affirmative action…

Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced to the Birmingham jail in 1963 for protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King reflected upon the different types of discrimination that was occurring throughout America and knew that changes needed to be made to promote equal opportunities for all people, regardless of race. While he was falsely confined in jail, he wrote the famous, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and described," Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice…

class, Thursday, February 18th, we discussed civil rights, social rights, political rights, and slavery. In lieu of recent events and our class discussion on Thursday it is important to discern the difference between…

At the end of the civil rights movement President Lyndon B Johnson began to refocus his goal on the success of everyone despite their race. The former President once said, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair." Over the past fifty years our nation has become as accepting and unbiased as…

Affirmative action is another issue that should be addressed. Affirmative action was not addressed with the interviewees due to time constraints, but is an issue that was brought up during the past summer in regards to high profile incidents between police officers and minorities. The question was posed by several news outlets that a lot of police departments did not represent the community in which they served. This can pose a problem in regards to the fact that some minority candidates may be…