Assignment task: Affirmative Action
1) Main socio-economic objectives of Affirmative Action programs?
2) What was the Philadelphia Plan designed to do?
3) Why did President Nixon believe that Affirmative Action would be beneficial to his economic policies?
4) How was President Nixon to use the programs as an anti-labor measure he could politically benefit from?
5) How did Affirmative Action programs problematize the political prospects of the democratic Party among American workers?