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The Fifth Freedom : Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972
Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through the backroom machinations of federal bureaucrats and judges. The Fifth Freedom presents a new perspective, tracing the roots of the policy to partisan co...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. On the Origins of Affirmative Action: Puzzles and Perspectives; 2. The Strange Career of Fair Employment Practices in National Politics and Policy, 1941-1960; 3. Experimenting with Civil Rights: The Politics of Ives-Quinn in New York State, 1941-1945; 4. Laboratories of Democracy? The Unsteady March of Fair Employment in the States, 1945-1964; 5. I Have a Dream Deferred: The Fall of Fair Employmentand the Rise of Affirmative Action; 6. Conclusions and Implications; Appendix. | |
| 520 | |a Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through the backroom machinations of federal bureaucrats and judges. The Fifth Freedom presents a new perspective, tracing the roots of the policy to partisan conflicts over fair employment practices (FEP) legislation from the 1940s to the 1970s. Drawing on untapped sources, Anthony Chen chronicles the ironic, forgotten role played by American conservatives in the development of affirmative action. Decades before affirmative action began making headlines, m. | ||
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