Establishing the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
Summary
Required government contractors to take affirmative action to ensure employees and applicants are treated without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin. First use of the term 'affirmative action' in executive policy.
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Related Executive Orders
Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas
Franklin D. Roosevelt — February 19, 1942
Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Harry S. Truman — July 26, 1948
Desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
Dwight D. Eisenhower — September 23, 1957
Equal Opportunity in Housing
John F. Kennedy — November 20, 1962
Equal Employment Opportunity
Lyndon B. Johnson — September 24, 1965
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