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In post-war America, other groups sought their place on America’s campuses, too. The
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of women in higher education began to increase. Black and Hispanic
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demand an end
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segregation in elementary and
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education—and thus an equal opportunity to get into college. (In the United States the
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"minority" has two meanings, often
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: (1)A minority is any ethnic or racial group that
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a small percentage of the total
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; (2)The term also
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a group that has less political power than the
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.)
By the 1960s, college
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special plans and programs to equalize educational opportunities
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every level, for all groups. Some of these plans were called "affirmative action programs". Their goal was to make up for past
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by giving special preference
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members of minorities seeking jobs or
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to college. Some colleges, for example, sponsored programs to help minority students prepare for college while
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in high school.
By the 1970s, the United States government stood firmly
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such goals, it required colleges and universities receiving public
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to practise some form of affirmative action. But when colleges began to set
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(fixed numbers) of minority students to be admitted, many Americans (including minority citizens)
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. They felt that this was another form of discrimination.
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