Box LGL.04
Container
Contains 81 Results:
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC), circa 1941-1965
Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Materials relate to the work of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, more commonly known as the FEPC, "appointed to handle the delicate problem of color and race discrimination." Material includes coverage of hearings held around the country concerning race-based discrimination in specific companies with government contracts during WWII. Documentation includes transcripts, written testimony, reporter's notes, photographs, correspondence, memos, and...
Dates:
circa 1941-1965
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - National Council for a Permanent FEPC - Articles, circa 1944-1947
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Documents cover the work of a national coalition of groups urging the creation of a permanent FEPC as the wartime committee wound down, in the face of opposition to FEPC among southern senators.
Dates:
circa 1944-1947
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - Railroad Cases - September 1943 Hearings - Notes, 1943
File — Multiple Containers
Dates:
1943
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - Railroad Cases - September 1943 Hearings - Press Releases, 1943
File — Multiple Containers
Dates:
1943
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - Truman Committee and Executive Orders, 1949-1951
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Includes details of Truman's executive orders 9980 and 10,308. Unfavorable commentary by Clarence Mitchell of the Washington NAACP.
Dates:
1949-1951