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Box LGL.04

 Container

Contains 81 Results:

Riots - Michigan, 1943-1946

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Detroit. Includes a clipping titled "Racism is the seed of Fascism."

Dates: 1943-1946

Riots - New Jersey, 1944, 1967-1968, 1977

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Clippings mention the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disobedience

Dates: 1944; 1967-1968; 1977

Riots - Tennessee, 1946

 File — Multiple Containers

Riots - Texas, 1923, 1943

 File — Multiple Containers

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