e determining factor in its report and has issued many calls for increased job opportunities. But this year there is something different: In words that leave no room for misunderstanding, Hugh Price, the League's president, calls for an urban policy centered on a modern-day Works Progress Administration (WPA) to end the "Great Depression in America's ghettos. There is nothing un-American about spending money to help fill gaping holes in the labor market," he writes.
             Affirmative action is a term used to describe federal initiatives that require people responsible for providing economic and educational opportunities to consider a candidate's race, sex, or disability, especially if the individual's minority affiliation has suffered past discrimination (Affirmative Action 1). Affirmative Action Color of skin is not relevant in public affairs. In recent times, virtually every great political leader has recognized the truth of affirmative action. But, what is affirmative action one might ask? According to Merriam - Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition: "An active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women." These special considerations are seen as reparations, payments made to people by the government for past mistreatment (Mizell 169).
             "Awful as race prejudice, lawlessness and ignorance are, we can fight time if we frankly face them and dare name them and tell the truth; but if we continually dodge and cloud the issue, and say the half truth because the whole stings and shames; if we do this, we invite catastrophe. Let us then in all charity but unflinching firmness, set our faces against all statesmanship that looks in such directions." –W.E.B. Debois.
             The laws that established affirmative action were initially intended to abolish discrimination in the job market and education (Mizell 164-5). They were further elaborated upon when employer...