...of a divided country during wartime, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which mandated that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin."8 Roosevelt subsequently broadened the coverage to include all organizations, unions, or industries...

...Randolph's approval. On June 25, 1941, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802. The order mandated that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment...government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." Furthermore, it was "the duty of employers and of labor organizations ... to provide for the...

...executive order outlawing discrimination. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802, issued June 25, 1941, forbade "discrimination in the employment of workers in defense...government because of race, creed, color or national origin." The President then created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to enforce the order....

...charged circumstances that brought about President Roosevelt's Executive Order 88o2, of June 25, 1941, which declared that "there shall be no discrimination...employment of workers in defense industries or government." Roosevelt's order was his attempt to defuse an impending crisis in race relations precipitated by the...

...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...

...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...

...Executive Order 8802 on June 25,1941, which stated that it would be the "policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment...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...