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2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 558-559
Author(s):  
Philip F. Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
Black Equality

scholarly journals The Anatomy Of EEOs Level Playing Field

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Edward L. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Level Playing Field ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sarah Palin

The election of President Barack Obama, and the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin raise the issue of whether we continue to need equal employment opportunity and/or affirmative action. The concept of a level playing field is carefully developed, and provides a basis for a more thorough analysis of the future of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

The Gates of Opportunity

2019 ◽  
pp. 206-218
Author(s):  
Eric Fenrich
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Space Program ◽  
Primary Methods ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Disadvantaged People

Eric Fenrich studies the efforts of Black activists and NASA to increase minority educational access that would lead to greater participation in the space program. According to Fenrich, the concurrence of the civil rights movement and the American space program reveal the two primary methods by which the advocates in the modern era have sought to advance the interests of African Americans. First, a negative project: the removal of formal barriers to the exercise of rights, more specifically, ending discriminatory practices in Equal Employment Opportunity and education. Second, more positive efforts, such as equal employment opportunities or affirmative action, that place opportunities within the reach of historically disadvantaged people. Fenrich also examines the fallout over James C. Fletcher’s firing of Ruth Bates Harris.

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