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…, affirmative action isn't a program of choosing people of color over whites for a job, nor the reverse. Instead, affirmative action seeks to make the number of people of color employed proportionate to the percentage of their respective race or ethnicity…

…they refer to colored people. b. Mrs. Logan responds to the problem by gluing white sheets of paper onto the book user list. c. David Logan pays the mortgage on the family’s land by working on the railroad. d. Mr. Morrison comes to help with the chores and help…

…so present when the bill was first enacted, in 1965. At this time, the country was in the wake of nationwide civil-rights demonstrations, and racial tension was at its peak. Most of the corporate executive and managerial positions were occupied by white…

…this period of nearly half a century, over half (54%) of those executed were blacks, 45 percent were white, and the remaining one percent were members of other racial groups. The majority of those executed were men; 32 women were executed from 1930 to 1967…

…Jean Toomer Jean Toomer was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C, the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for a white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a predominantly black community and he went to black high schools. In 1914, he…

…What is America? Did this land of the free belong to the white settlers in the 1800’s when they first arrived or the Native Americans who cultivated here thousands of years ago? While hunting down the American dream, settlers have almost committed…

…of white society to have a negative perception of them. Many times in the media whites are not portrayed in such a manner. One of the reasons this occurs is because of the structure in which the news is presented. This reason is shown through the use…

…. Most of the corporate executive and managerial positions were occupied by white males, who controlled the hiring and firing of employees. The U.S. government, in 1965, believed that these employers were discriminating against minorities…

…Affirmative Action = Reverse Discrimination We are all aware that discrimination took place over 50 years ago. What some might not be aware of is that because of the actions of our ancestors, we, white males, are held responsible and are penalized…

…jobs opened up which encoraged African-Americans as well as whites to the cities searching for a job. Almost 750,000 African-Americans came to urban centers after leaving the rural south. They found that New York was relatively tolerant to their new ideas…