Cause of Affirmative Action?!

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SeñoritaMafioso Dec 13, 2012

I am writing an argumentative essay on this topic, and I am now turning to you people for help!

Do any of you know the cause of Affirmative Action? I mean a specific one, like a court case, public issue (besides the national movement), or ruling that prompted President Kennedy to make the Executive Order that started Affirmative Action? Or did he just kind of randomly decide to do it?

I've been trying to find an answer for a long time but I am obviously failing at it :'(
Help will be greatly appreciated!!!
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Have you checked EBSCO?
Funky Buffalo Dec 13, 2012

There was a case involving the university of Michigan or Michigan state which made it legal. I can't remember the name off the top of my head.
SeñoritaMafioso Dec 13, 2012

Funky Buffalo wrote:
There was a case involving the university of Michigan or Michigan state which made it legal. I can't remember the name off the top of my head.

Back in the 60s?
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SeñoritaMafioso wrote:
I don't know what that is, I've been using Google and a Michigan Database thing

EBSCO is an academic database. It's probably similar to the Michigan on you're using. Have you tried google books or google scholar? I've found some good sources on there for hard topics.
E=MC(Hammer) Dec 13, 2012

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmativetimeline1.html

http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jackson/social.issues/papers/AfActGrG.html

Found these in less than a minute. Funky, I think Regents of the Univeristy of California v Bakke is the case you are thinking of.
SeñoritaMafioso Dec 13, 2012

But I have yet to find a specific cause. So Kennedy just did it?
SeñoritaMafioso Dec 13, 2012

E=MC(Hammer) wrote:
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmativetimeline1.html

http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jackson/social.issues/papers/AfActGrG.html

Found these in less than a minute. Funky, I think Regents of the Univeristy of California v Bakke is the case you are thinking of.

Thank you, these are helpful. I have to have TWENTY SOURCES for this stupid paper... grrr....
Funky Buffalo Dec 13, 2012

E=MC(Hammer) wrote:
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmativetimeline1.html

http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jackson/social.issues/papers/AfActGrG.html

Found these in less than a minute. Funky, I think Regents of the Univeristy of California v Bakke is the case you are thinking of.

Possibly, constitutional law was a long time ago lol
Traüger🏃Retired Dec 13, 2012

There was a supreme court where a kid applying to UC Berkeley was rejected and a less qualified minority was accepted; the white kid who was rejected sued the school in the 1970's but I forget what the case was called.
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Easybib.com
That's what I always use to make my works cited page. It keeps it from being less of a pain in the ass.
☣ 🎸ӈɪƖƖßıƖƖγ🎸☣ Dec 13, 2012

Also, I wouldn't cite a dot com website. Some professors don't like that.
SeñoritaMafioso Dec 13, 2012

I do use Easybib - LOVE it!!!
I'm using mostly news articles and documents I can find on MEL.org's General Reference Center GOLD (it's for Michigan peeps!). I try to be good about what I use as a source. Except this paper needs at least TWENTY sources, so I might start going for dot-coms if I get really desperate near the end.

Did I mention that this paper is due at 11:30am tomorrow?