David Hamilton Golland is Professor of History at Governors State University near Chicago, Illinois. The author of Constructing Affirmative Action: the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011) and A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican, he holds a Ph.D. and B.A. from the City University of New York and an M.A. from the University of Virginia.
The Philadelphia Plan (1967-1970)
The Philadelphia Plan was a federal affirmative action program established in 1967 to racially integrate the building construction trade unions through mandatory goals for nonwhite hiring on federal construction contracts. Declared illegal in 1968, a revised version was successfully defended by the Nixon Administration and … Read MoreThe Philadelphia Plan (1967-1970)