Executive Order 10555

Seal

Executive Order 10555, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 23, 1954, established a Seal for the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped.

The Committee was succeeded by the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, which in turn was made into the Office of Disability Employment Policy, an agency in the Department of Labor, in 2001.

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Executive Order 10555

Text of Executive Order No. 10555
Executive Order 10555 from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website.

Affirmative action in the United States

Supreme Court decisions	Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) 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) Hopwood v. Texas (5th Cir. 1996) Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) Parents v. Seattle School District 1 (2007) Ricci v. DeStefano (2009) Fisher v. University of Texas (2013 and 2016 cases) Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (2014)

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) Proposition 107 (AZ, 2010) State Question 759 (OK, 2012)

People	Ward Connerly Arthur Fletcher Ward Churchill

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Executive Order 10555

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