Affirmative Action

This overview of affirmative action outlines its origins and purpose. Read about affirmative action in the 1960s and its status today.

A 1995 report guiding the Clinton administration in its approach to affirmative action programs.

From a 1995 government report, a history of affirmative action and the reason it was implemented.

Web site with a variety of articles and resources on discrimination, affirmative action, quotas, merit, rights, race and color blindness, University of California decisions, and pending legislation and court cases.

Timeline from the AUAA goes back to Reconstruction and Jim Crow, 1775-1899, and extends the history to the present.

1998 Washington Post special report on Affirmative Action. This overview also links to key stories from the Post's archives and other special reports, opinion, and discussion.

Text of an address by Dalmas Taylor, President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Form Infoplease.com, an outline of the history of affirmative action, including key legal decisions. See also the expanded timeline.

From Americans for a Fair Chance, a timeline beginning with President John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10925.

A collection of articles on affirmative action, including interviews, essays and more.

Speech on affirmative action by President Bill Clinton, July 19, 1995.

1999 article by Anthony R. Pratkanis from the Journal of Social Issues. How does affirmative action "as help" affect White Americans? The author looks at affirmative action as "democratic altruism."

A 1995 article outlining the legal and political history of affirmative action.