Can You Score At Least 50% On This American Civil Rights QUIZ?

What opened national defense and other government jobs to all male Americans regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin?

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Retry Correct Incorrect In the first federal action to promote equal opportunity, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 in 1941 at the onset of WWII saying, “the democratic way of life within the nation can be defended successfully only with the help and support of all groups.”
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What opened national defense and other government jobs to all male Americans regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin?

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • Executive Order 8802
  • Executive Order 9981
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