Affirmative Action Programs

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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss affirmative action programs in the workplace, the problems associated with antidiscrimination laws, drawbacks and clash of the law and reverse discrimination suits, with particular emphasis on the Bakke case.

On October 12, 1977, a long line snaked up the stone steps of the Supreme Court. The court was scheduled to hear case number 76-811. Proponents and opponents of affirmative action waited patiently to hear arguments about whether a white male, Allan Bakke, should be admitted to the University of California Medical School at Davis.

The case had begun more than six years earlier when Bakke, an engineer for NASA, decided to become a doctor. Bakke had graduated near the top of his class at the University of Minnesota. He served in the Vietnam War and then began his post ... "

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