Affirmative Action Affirmative action was first implemented in 1965, by president Lyndon B. Johnson. Affirmative action was created to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Civil Rights Act had passed just a year before and it created a situation where minorities were considered equals but not treated as equals in the work force, schools, and in government. There was a desperate need for some sort of …showed first 75 words of 2280 total…

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