Minority and Women Diversity Threatened... States Introduce Anti-Diversity Laws - The Atlanta Inquirer

The Atlanta Inquirer

Minority and Women Diversity Threatened... States Introduce Anti-Diversity Laws - The Atlanta Inquirer

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy (JFK) created a Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, in response to the Civil Rights Movement. He issued Executive Order 10925, which used the term “affirmative action” to refer to measures designed to achieve non-discrimination. It was a “national effort to remedy subjugation of racial and ethnic minorities and of women.” Whereas, some efforts began in the 1950s and 1960s to include minorities, efforts di