Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which created the first Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) and forced defense contractors “to provide for the full and equitable participation of ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941, which outlawed racial discrimination in the federal workforce and defense industry. President Dwight Eisenhower, another Texan ...

Those gains expanded during the lead-up to World War II, as Roosevelt, in response to pressure from activists issued Executive Order 8802, which outlawed discrimination in the defense industry.

Roosevelt recognised that he would need the ... Due to this, he issued Executive Order 8802. This Presidential Order stated that, There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers ...

Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, integrating the Armed Forces. James Willis was among them. Because of racism and prejudice, they were trained at the segregated portion of Camp Lajeune ...

Representing 44 national and local Jewish organizations, the Coordinating Committee was created to further the purposes of Executive Order 8802 which prohibits discrimination in war industries and ...