This order required federal contractors "to take Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants are employed, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." ... Affirmative action was created with efforts to aid minorities and women leap the discriminative barriers that were still presented even after the bill was enacted in 1965. ... The text proposition says that the proposition "Prohibits the state, local governments, districts, public universities, colleges, and schools, and other government instrumentalities from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment...

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