In addition to desegregating war industries, president roosevelt agreed to:
a. end discrimination in the military draft.
b. begin desegregating public schools.
c. make better jobs available to african americans.
d. support african americans running for office.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts