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Executive Order 8802 was an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941. It prohibited ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry, including in companies, unions, and federal agencies. [ 1 ]
The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work." [1] That was shortly before the United States entered World War II.
In June 1941, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which created the Fair Employment Practice Committee . It was the most important federal move in support of the rights of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The President's order stated that the federal government would not hire any person based on ...
After the activists threatened to march on Washington D.C. in July 1941, Roosevelt - faced with a public relations disaster for his presidency and wanting to unite all Americans in striving towards defeating fascism - issued Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941, which ordered the elimination of racial discrimination from federal departments ...
Executive Order 8802 was issued by the president to prohibit discrimination among defense contractors, and African Americans sought a share of opportunities in the high-paying jobs in Texas. New residents in Beaumont competed for jobs and housing in the crowded town, where whites had imposed segregated facilities , as was common across the South.
Executive Order Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals For High Priority Infrastructure Projects. Calls for expediting construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Read Order Read article ; January 20, 2017 Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “to protect Texans from the coordinated harassment and coercion by the People's Republic of China (PRC) or the Chinese ...
[citation needed] Before the order was signed, the MOWM demanded also that it included a provision for desegregation of war industries. Roosevelt agreed and issued Executive Order 8802, which prohibited discrimination in federal vocational and training programs, and in employment in defense industries contracting with the government. Given this ...