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President Kennedy Speaks Out
One of President Kennedy's first Executive Orders used affirmative action for the first time by instructing federal contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that everyone was treated the same disregarding their race, religion, culture or even their gender. This is important, as its almost as if President Kennedy has planted a see that will eventually sprout into the beautiful organization that is the AAAED. -
The Equal Pay Act
The Equal Pay Act was actually a form of affirmative action made to prevent sex-based wage discrimination. Which basically made it so that no matter what a persons gender may be, payments received from work places didn't differ. This is also important to my timeline, as it displays people peacefully using affirmative action to their advantage to even gender wage payouts. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. This is important to my timeline as well, as it displays President Kennedy going of his 1963 Equal Pay Act, and adding on to that by completing cleaning the slate and making everyone even. -
The Oppressed Speak Out
Women, Latinos, the LGBT community and individuals with disabilities began to seek their rights to equal access and opportunity. In 1974 women and men who worked for institutions of higher education and who were charged with the responsibility for complying with these new laws met to form the Association. This is also quite important, as it shows that people are beginning to follow in President Kennedy's footsteps, and attempt at affirmative action. -
The Birth of The AAAED
The American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity (AAAED) was founded in 1974 as the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA), a non-profit organization. It is the longest-standing national civil rights organization of people who engage in the work of leading and managing affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity, etc. This is obviously also important to my project, as it finally shows the creation of the very organization we've been building up to, the AAAED. -
Sources
Kathleen Martinez
More History of Affirmative Action Policies From the 1960s
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About Us
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About Access, Equity and Diversity.
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