Excerpt from Federal Affirmative Action Efforts in Mid-America: A Report Prepared by the Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska Advisory Committees to the Unites States Commission on Civil Rights Now, much of what developed from affirmative action of the Older l96os type - positive effort to create truly equal competition for jobs and schooling, with no outright favors for anyone based on mere group membership - has been to the good. Many able blacks, Hispanics, and women have seen the Old barriers swept away and have demonstrated that they can compete quite successfully and can produce on the firing line of performance. These people stand only to lose by continued pressure for selection of minorities and women regardless of merit, because their success will become suspect by everyone unacquainted with the facts of their selection and achieve ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.