Executive Order 10925

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Executive Order 10925 was signed by President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, requiring government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."^[1] It established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, which later became the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Executive Order 10925

Executive Order 10925 of President Kennedy was supplemented by President Johnson's Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965.

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Federal legislation	Hyde Amendment (1976) • Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (1994) • Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (2002) • Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 • Unborn Victims of Violence Act (2004)

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Supreme Court decisions	Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) • United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979) • Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980) • Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986) • City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989) • Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña (1995) • Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) • Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) • Parents v. Seattle (2007) • Ricci v. DeStefano (2009)

Federal legislation and edicts	Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) • Executive Order 10925 (1961) • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Executive Order 11246 (1965)

State initiatives	Proposition 209 (CA, 1996) • Initiative 200 (WA, 1998) • Proposal 2 (MI, 2006) • Initiative 424 (NE, 2008)

People	Ward Connerly • Arthur Fletcher

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Cases	United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative (2001) • Gonzales v. Raich (2005)

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Same-sex marriage legalized:	Connecticut - District of Columbia - Iowa - Massachusetts - New Hampshire - New York - Vermont - Washington - Coquille, Suquamish

Same-sex marriage recognized, but not performed:	California*^# - Maryland^†

Civil union or domestic partnership legal:	California - Colorado - Delaware - District of Columbia - Hawaii - Illinois - Maine - Maryland^† - Nevada - New Jersey - Oregon - Rhode Island - Washington - Wisconsin

Same-sex marriage prohibited by statute:	Delaware - Hawaii - Illinois - Indiana - Maine - Maryland^† - Minnesota - North Carolina - Pennsylvania - Puerto Rico - West Virginia - Wyoming

Same-sex marriage prohibited by constitutional amendment:	Alaska - Arizona - California^# - Colorado - Mississippi - Missouri - Montana - Nevada - Oregon - Tennessee

All types of same-sex unions prohibited by constitutional amendment:	Alabama - Arkansas - Florida - Georgia - Idaho - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Michigan - Nebraska - North Dakota - Ohio - Oklahoma - South Carolina - South Dakota - Texas - Utah - Virginia - Wisconsin

Recognition of same-sex unions undefined by statute or constitutional amendment:	American Samoa - Guam - New Mexico

Notes: *All out-of-state same-sex marriages are given the benefits of marriage under California law, although only those performed before November 5, 2008, are granted the designation "marriage". ^# California's ban on same-sex marriage remains in limbo following a federal case finding the ban unconstitutional, which is currently stayed pending appeal. ^†The Maryland Legislature passed a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry, and the Governor signed it into law. It will go into effect January 1, 2013 pending a referendum in November.

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