Which Is True of Affirmative Action

question 4

Multiple Choice

Which is true of affirmative action?

• A) Companies found it fairly easy to follow the affirmative action guidelines of hiring a certain percentage of minorities.
• B) Nixon tried but failed to cause a breakup of the Democratic coalition of blacks and whites that had been forged during the New Deal years.
• C) Many of the nation's universities adopted affirmative action policies only after lengthy court battles.
• D) In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California Bakke v. , the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action but denied the right of an entity to use exact quotas to achieve the goal of equality.
• E) Programs of affirmative action were generally developed at the state level, since the federal government could not create a one-size-fits-all policy.

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