...establish a Fair Employment Practices Committee. The Executive Order establishing the Committee provided that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin . . ."1S While it would not be easy to weigh the specific contributions of FEPC to broadening...

..."... I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in employment of workers in defense industries or Government...because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of...

...Roosevelt would take no action. However, on June 25, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 stating "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." Tb carry out this order, he established a Fair Employment Practices Committee. Randolph called...

...directly resulted in President Roosevelt's issuance of Executive Order 8802, which was designed to prevent "discrimination in the employment of workers in defense...Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin" (Franklin 388). The Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC), established under the auspices...

...antidiscrimination measure, was justified in the following way: I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment...because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of...

...conduct of our national defense production effort, I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment...because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of...

...off on 25 June 1941 when the president issued Executive Order 8802. lt was now United States policy "that there shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin."8 Obviously ineligible for the draft, blues guitarist Blind Boy Fuller sang a cynical "When...

...Washington to protest employment discrimination. PresidentRoosevelt responded in June 1941 by signing Executive Order 8802, which declared that "there shall...because of race, creed, color, or national origin" and required that all defense contracts have a nondiscrimination clause. The likely power of the executive...

...provision "obligating the contractor not to discriminate against any worker." The order also stated that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...because of race, creed, color or national origin and ... it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations ... to provide for the full and equitable...

...it." On June 25, 1941, just days before the march, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which stated that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industries or Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." It also established...