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From: Black Issues Book Review | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE JAMES FARMER'S MEMOIR LAY BARE THE HEART: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (Texas Christian University Press, September 1998), the words "affirmative action" were first uttered at a meeting in 1962 at Vice President Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch.

Johnson suddenly leaned forward dramatically, staring Farmer directly in the eye, and asked him what he suggested be done to help blacks obtain full equality with whites?

"What I'm proposing," Farmer, founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), answered without hesitation, "is that as a ...

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