...result, on June 25, 1941, President Roosevelt issued his famous Executive Order 8802, which forbade "discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or Government because of race, creed, or national origin" and established a Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to administer the...

...fair employment practices if Randolph called off the threatened march. Executive Order 8802 forbade "discrimination in the employment of workers in defense...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." While FDR did little to enforce the edict, the episode signaled a tactical shift within the...

...States then agreed to issue what became Executive Order 8802. This executive order forthrightly ordered that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries of government because of race, creed, color or national origin" and created a Fair Employment Practices...

...stated that: As a prerequisite to the successful conduct of our national defense production effort, I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States...hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and...

...Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 8802 on June 25,1941, which stated that it would be the "policy of the United States that there shall...because of race, creed, color, or national origin," and which called for the establishment of a Fair Employment Practices Committee. After Order 8802, the...

...Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941, just days before the proposed march. It stated that there shall be no discrimination in the employment...of race, creed, color or national origin . . . And it is the duty of all employers and of labor organizations ... to provide full and equitable participation...

...issued Executive Order 8802, and the March on Washington was called off. Executive Order 8802 decreed: "There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries and in Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin. . . . And it is the duty of employers...

...statutes, and as a prerequisite to the successful conduct of our national defense production effort, I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States...hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and...

...Finally, determined to stop the march, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941, declaring that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." To ensure compliance, he established the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) to investigate...

...had said. But FDR's Executive Order 8802 laid down new rules. Issued on June 25, 1941, it declared: "There shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." In his book, Kennedy argues that FDR was pressured into issuing the order by labor leader...