Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which required racially diverse hiring from federal contractors, had survived five Republican presidents. It couldn’t survive Trump, who erased it with a command to end “illegal preferences and discrimination” across the government.

The president moved to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs throughout the federal government with a flurry of executive orders, upending decades of policy.

Johnson in 1965, which established Affirmative Action. BREAKING: President Trump has signed an executive order rescinding Lyndon Johnson's EO 11246, which established affirmative action, and banning all federal contractors and publicly-funded universities from practicing race-based discrimination,