Title VII

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In the year 2004, most of us take for granted that formal discrimination is illegal in the United States. We know we cannot be denied basic rights based on our sex, our religion, our race, or our ethnic origins. These rights have been so entrenched in our country's laws for so long -- nearly forty years -- that no one questions their legitimacy. What is hidden in that reality is just how much discrimination has been tolerated in the United States, even in its fairly recent history. This paper briefly traces the history of civil rights legislation in the United States, focusing on Title VII, which was passed in 1964, as the legislation that created a true turning point for civil rights law and practice

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"These laws and regulations resulted in programs called "affirmative action," where agencies and companies attempted to redress some of the historical wrongs committed against certain groups of people. In 1979 the Supreme Court upheld an affirmative action program used by the United Steelworkers of America, noting that voluntary affirmative action programs by private groups did not, simply by its existence, discriminate against non-minority workers (Segal, 2003). This ruling emphasized that such actions reflected the purpose of Title VII, and was not trying to force racial balance but simply to eliminate obvious racial imbalances. Another such ruling occurred in 1987 when the Supreme Court upheld a similar action based on sex (Segal, 2003)."

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