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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
What is affirmative action? This is a question that has plagued our nation since the 1960's.
The term itself was coined during this decade. The problem has actually existed since the
founding of our country. And the issue of discrimination has been around for much lo ....
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.... "all persons held as
slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion of the United States shall be then henceforth and forever free; and the executive
government of the United States, including the military and naval authority there of will
recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act to repress such
persons or any of them, in any efforts they may take for their actual freedom." But this
proclamation did little for most African-Americans held in bordering states fighting on the ....
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