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Any organization that accepts a federal contract must have an affirmative action program: A federal contractor who lacks an affirmative action program breaks the law (Holloway, Chapter 2). Who made the laws concerning affirmative action? Obviously, Congress has played an important part in developing affirmative action, especially when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. As influential as Congress has been, the Executive branch of government may have occupied the most crucial role for the policy of affirmative action.
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Taylor, D.A. (1989). Affirmative Action and Presidential Executive Orders. In: Affirmative Action in Perspective. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9639-0_3
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