Affirmative Action and Civil Rights
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- Affirmative Action Review: Report to the President (Department of Justice)
July 1995 report to the President of the United States on federal affirmative action programs, by White House staff. Includes a history of affirmative action, a literature review of empirical research on the topic, and a review of federal programs. Also provides the text of the Presidential Directive of July 19, 1995, to federal agencies on the implementation of federal affirmative action programs, and a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel Memorandum of June 28, 1995 "on the implications of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 63 U.S.L.W. 4523 (U.S. June 12, 1995)." - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page
"The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, programs and services provided by state and local governments, goods and services provided by private companies, and in commercial facilities." - Census Bureau
- EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) Occupation Data
Contains data on the number of people employed in nearly 500 occupations and covers gender, race, ethnicity, education, age, industry, and earnings. - Survey of Business Owners
Provides statistics that describe the composition of U.S. businesses by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race.
- EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) Occupation Data
- Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division
"Created for the purpose of enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination." - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC).
Provides the full text of the laws enforced by the Commission, and information about types of illegal discrimination.
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International Sources
- United Nations Programs for the Advancement of Women
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Addresses numerous topics related to civil rights, such as
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Nongovernmental Sources
- American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA)
Offers information on affirmative action at the federal and state level, including statutes, administrative law, judicial action and the actions of agencies and commissions. Provides the full text of executive statements, selected court decisions, pending legislation and regulations, as well as links to online news articles and an extensive list of related Internet sites. - Center for Individual Rights (CIR)
Includes the Cir Case Finder, a database of active and recent case that can be searched by topic or by court. CIR is a nonprofit public interest law firm that litigates and publicizes legal cases relating to what it deems to be excessive or unconstitutional federal or state use of authority. - Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Provides digitized publications of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. A joint project of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland. - Legal Information Institute (LII) (Cornell Law School)
Includes collections of primary materials and overviews for the following topics:
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Numerous sources of information on affirmative action are available in the collection.
Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook, the library catalog:
| Electronic Resources | Print and Electronic Resources |
| affirmative action and employ* | affirmative action and employ* |
| affirmative action and educat* | affirmative action and educat* |
| civil rights | civil rights |
affirmative action or civil rights (government publications only) |
affirmative action or civil rights (government publications only) |
The * replaces up to five characters in a word.
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