Employment discrimination. Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency of a nation in which white supremacy was a significant cultural and political force.Franklin University is committed to being an inclusive community free from all forms of discrimination and harassment in all university dealings. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 prohibiting ethnic and racial discrimination in the country's growing defense industry. The FEPC enforced the order to ban discriminatory hiring within the federal government and in corporations that received federal contracts. In some cases, sex discrimination was more subtle: the Social Security Act did not provide for domestics, large percentages of whom were women. In the literature, the term 'probative value' is often used to refer to something akin to Nance's notion of 'discriminatory power'. They were confronted with discrimination, socially sanctioned segregation, and racial violence born of white resistance. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in a broad array of private conduct including public accommodations, governmental services and education. Protected opposition also includes refusal to implement a discriminatory policy.