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Hiring Quotas for White Males Only
Foner, Eric | June 26, 1995 issue

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Affirmative action has emerged as the latest "wedge issue" of American politics. The recent abrogation of California affirmative action programs by Governor Pete Wilson, and U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration halting efforts to re-evaluate federal policy, suggest the issue is now coming to a head. White immigrants certainly faced discrimination. But they had access to the political power, jobs and residential neighborhoods denied to blacks. In the nineteenth century, the men among them enjoyed the right to vote even before they were naturalized. Until well into this century, however, the vast majority of black Americans were excluded from the suffrage except for a period immediately after the Civil War.

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AFFIRMATIVE action programs; DISCRIMINATION in employment; DISCRIMINATION; EMPLOYEE selection; WHITES; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; WILSON, Pete
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