Affirmative action in the United States
After the Nixon administration, advancements in affirmative action became less prevalent. "During the brief Ford administration, affirmative action took a back seat, while enforcement stumbled along.":145 Equal rights was still an important subject to many Americans, yet the world was changing and new issues were being raised. People began to look at affirmative action as a glorified issue of the past and now there were other areas that needed focus. "Of all the triumphs that have marked this as America's Century -...none is more inspiring, if incomplete, than our pursuit of racial justice."
Which administration allowed affirmative action to take a backseat to other issues?
Ford
"During the brief Ford administration, affirmative action took a back seat, while enforcement stumbled along.
affirmative action