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The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat. The United States Army was small, understaffed, and disorganized in comparison to its status during the American Civil War roughly thirty years prior.
The modern history begins in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 issued Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
Executive Order 10925, signed by President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, required government contractors, except in special circumstances, to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin".
Check out CNN’s Affirmative Action Fast Facts for some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable Supreme Court court cases.
Executive Order 11246 also required contractors with 51 or more employees and contracts of $50,000 or more to implement affirmative action plans to increase the participation of minorities and women in the workplace if a workforce analysis demonstrates their under-representation, meaning that there are fewer minorities and women than would be ...
The 60-year-old executive order had merely required federal contractors to implement affirmative action plans to engage with the government. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Since the presidential directive aimed to ensure equal employment opportunity, several media outlets briefly and mistakenly reported it as a repeal of the 1972 Act.
When the Supreme Court of the United States outlawed affirmative action, declaring that race can’t be a factor in college admissions, I thought: ...
The first Congress of the United States granted citizenship to “any alien, being a free white person” who has been in the United States for two years. 1830: The Trail of White Tears