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Dbq Equal Employment Opportunity

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The equal employment opportunity commission was formed on July 2, 1965. The United States EEOC is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against works place discrimination. President John. F. Kennedy's Executive Order used equal opportunity for the first time in 1961 by instructing federal constructors to make sure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. When the equal employment opportunity was first created by the Civil Rights Act, it was only given limited power to punish the employers that did not adhere to this rule. That all changed in 1972 the congress gave the EEOC the authority to sue the employers. The way that employers are treated at work should

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