The Equal Employment Policy Of Nixon Administration

In order to erase the history of discrimination in employment, all governments have taken measures since World War II, however, they all had little effect. After Nixon Administration came into power, it put forward a new policy named Philadelphia Plan, this new solution was in the context of civil rights movements and cultural pluralism, using the forcible intervention of the government, to compensate the ethnic and gender group which were unequally treated in the employment. This thesis intends to discuss this plan from its coming out to the abolishment, and analyses the roles and effects that Nixon Administration played in black civil rights.Besides the preface and conclusion, this thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter summarizes the equal employment policies of every administration from World War II till Nixon Administration, and analyses its trend and results. The second chapter, basing on the new features of civil rights movement, elaborates the coming out of Philadelphia Plan. The next chapter puts emphasis on the disputes caused by the plan and judicial judgments made by the Federal Courts. The last chapter analyses the causes which bring on the failure of the plan, and try the best to objectively and fairly evaluate the status of Nixon Administration in the civil rights movement.This thesis tries to show that Nixon Administration was indeed very significant in civil rights movement. In this period the civil rights movement had not slow down, but was moving in a different manner in the same direction. Philadelphia Plan was a very important policy in civil rights movement of Nixon Administration. Though the plan was full of paradoxes and lack of achievements, it had refined and greatly extended affirmative action. This new manner can be used for reference to all countries which has many ethnic groups.