Which Is True of Affirmative Action

Multiple Choice

Which is true of affirmative action?

A) Companies found it fairly easy to follow the affirmative action guidelines of hiring a certain percentage of minorities.
B) Nixon tried but failed to cause a breakup of the Democratic coalition of blacks and whites that had been forged during the New Deal years.
C) Many of the nation's universities adopted affirmative action policies only after lengthy court battles.
D) In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California Bakke v. , the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action but denied the right of an entity to use exact quotas to achieve the goal of equality.
E) Programs of affirmative action were generally developed at the state level, since the federal government could not create a one-size-fits-all policy.