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Author:

Golland, David Hamilton.

Title:

Constructing affirmative action : the struggle for equal employment opportunity / David Hamilton Golland.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 248 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Affirmative action programs--United States.
Construction industry--United States
Minority business enterprises--United States
Building trades--United States.
Race discrimination--United States
Minorities--Employment--United States.
Discrimination in employment--United States

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Fighting bureaucratic inertia, 1956-1960 -- Becoming the urban crisis, 1961-1963 -- Grasping at solutions, 1964-1967 -- Pushing the envelope : the Philadelphia plans, 1967-1969 -- Constructing affirmative action, 1970-1973 -- Conclusion : affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.

Series:

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century

ISBN:

0813129982 (ebook)
9780813129983 (ebook)
0813129974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813129976 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)682895306

LCCN:

2010054014

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)