Executive Order 10925, signed by

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John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." It established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO), which was chaired by then Vice President

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was in charge of the Committee's operations. This first implementation of affirmative action was intended to give equal opportunities in the workforce to all U.S. citizens, not to give special treatment to those discriminated against. Following passage of the

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(which went into effect a year later on July 2, 1965) and President Johnson's

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(which was signed on September 24, 1965), the Committee's functions were divided between the

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(EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (which in 1975 was renamed the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs).Golland, David Hamilton, ''Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity'' (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011) Opponents of the PCEEO and Executive Order 10925 included Senator

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, a

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, who claimed that the committee and the executive order were overreaches by the federal government into the private business of America.

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Full text of Executive Order 10925

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