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A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today's tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable" --Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books , "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic ) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ("Riveting"--Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review ), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take "affirmative action" to ensure that there be no discrimination by "race, creed, color, or national origin" down to today's American society. Melvin Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six mil-lion African Americans moved northward between 1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country's history. The author also writes of World War II, when women replaced men

Author

Urofsky, Melvin I., author

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101870877

Subjects

Business, Political Science

Rating

4.5 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14