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The Racial Equality Proposal (Japanese: 人種的差別撤廃提案, lit. "Proposal to abolish racial discrimination") was an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that was considered at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference .
The Racial Equality Proposal put forth by the Japanese did not directly conflict with any core British interest, but as the conference progressed, its full implications on immigration to the British dominions, with Australia taking particular exception, became a major point of contention within the delegation.
From its inception, the proposal proved to be immensely controversial; several newspapers in the United States immediately denounced it while Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes (who opposed the proposal) announced at a meeting that "ninety-five out of one hundred Australians rejected the very idea of equality". [110] The proposal was mostly ...
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The London-based Bryce Group made proposals adopted by the British League of Nations Society, founded in 1915. [1] Another group in the United States—which included Hamilton Holt and William B. Howland at the Century Association in New York City—had their own plan.
Time magazine's Impact Dinner on Thursday evening celebrated the honorees of The Closers issue, highlighting 25 Black leaders working to close the racial equality gap, from the Oscar-nominated ...
Commissioners and staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris on June 25, 1919 (President Wilson seated at center of front row)
The policy, known as Executive Order 11246, had directed federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to stop discrimination at their firms, and was ushered in at the height of the Civil ...