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Becoming Justice Thomas | 2. Smiling Faces
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The Rise and Fall of the Black Republican Party
Leah Wright-Riger: The question of opportunity and employment has long been on the minds of black people. JFK was the first president to call for affirmative action in the modern sense of the term, she says. But Johnson's affirmative action proposal was mired in controversy and ultimately got scrapped. She says Richard Nixon resurrected it under a Republican president; he said positive discrimination is okay if it's rectifying a historical wrong.
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