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The term, “affirmative action" was
first used by John F. Kennedy in his
Executive O rder No. 10925 o f
March 6, 1961, which established
the President’s Commission on
Equal Employment Opportunity:
“The contractor will take affirmative
action to ensure that applicants are
em ployed, and em ployees are
tre a te d fa irly d u rin g th e ir
employment, without regard to their
race, creed, color, or national
o r ig in ...” But, said President
Lyndon Johnson, “Freedom is not
enough. You do not take a person
who, for years, has been hobbled by
chains and liberate him, bring him
to the starting line o f a race and then
say, ‘You are free to compete with
all others,’ and still justly believe
you have been completely fair.”
And what did he propose? “We
seek not ju s t freedom but
opportunity,” said Johnson. “We
seek not just legal equity but human
ability, not just equality as a right
and a theory but equality as a fact
and equality as a result.” That
summer Johnson's ExecutiveOrder
No. 11246 would spell out the terms
o f affirmative action.
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