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Executive Order 13621

White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans

Signed by Barack Obama on July 26, 2012.

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Signed recordJuly 26, 2012

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Publication record77 FR 45471

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Continued by EO 13652 , September 30, 2013; EO 13708, September 30, 2015; EO 13811, September 29, 2017
Superseded by EO 14050, October 19, 2021
See EO 13532, February 26, 2010

The National Archives records of later actions cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.

Federal Register table of later actionsContinued by: EO 13652 , September 30, 2013; EO 13708, September 30, 2015; EO 13811, September 29, 2017 Superseded by: EO 14050, October 19, 2021 See: EO 13532, February 26, 2010

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