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Action for Equal Opportunity

Major excerpts from an address by McGeorge Bundy at the annual banquet of the National Urban League, in Philadelphia, Aug. 2, 1966. In his first major speech after becoming President of the Ford Foundation, Bundy stated that achieving full equality for African Americans was the major task facing the United States, and that this would be the major domestic focus of the Foundation in the coming years.