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Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
On March 6, 1961 President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to combat discrimination in government employment and in private employment stemming from government contracts. He made Lyndon Johnson chairman, and appointed Louis Martin to the committee's advisory group. Unlike similar executive measures taken by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, this order mandated "affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial, ethnic, or religious bias. In 1965 President Johnson's Executive Order 11246 amended the order by adding sex to the list attributes. |