Box LGL.04

Contains documentation of 1942 hearings in Birmingham, Alabama concerning employment practice in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Includes text of NAACP California Supreme Court case Joseph James et al v. Marinship Corporation. Included among photographs is AFRO reporter Bettye Murphy Phillips at Los Angeles hearing. See also: FEPC - U.S. - West Coast Hearings

Includes transcripts and other documentation of the January 1942 hearings of manufacturing companies and the April 1942 hearings of AFL unions.

Documentation of efforts to draft, pass, and enforce a local FEPC ordinance in Baltimore City.

Detailed documentation of FEPC hearings held in Saint Louis in August 1944. Also includes a 1959 report of the FEPC committee of the city of St. Louis, which was created by local ordinance in 1956.

Detailed coverage of February 1942 hearings on employment discrimination held by President's committee FEPC in February 1942.

Detailed coverage of first state law barring discrimination in employment also known as the Ives-Quinn Act. Includes essay by Irving M. Ives "Why I favor a permanent state commission against discrimination as recommended by the NY State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination." Photographs include a demonstration, office closing, and workers.

Coverage of discrimination cases heard by the FEPC in Cleveland (1942) and Cincinnati (1945). Cleveland cases concern Thompson Products Company and Warner-Swasey Company. Includes information about the Future Outlook League, a civil rights group in Cleveland.

Includes multiple press releases from civil rights organizations urging the FEPC to reschedule railroad hearings that were cancelled in January 1943. Also includes a protest letter signed by Charles Houston and a release by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provisional Committee to organize Colored Locomotive Firemen dated December 1, 1943.

Includes text of 1945 bill.