Box LGL.04
Contains 108 Results:
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - United States - New York - State Law, 1944-1947, 1955
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.
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - United States - Ohio - Hearings, 1942-1945
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.
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - United States - Pennsylvania - Hearings, 1942-1944
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.
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) - United States - Pennsylvania - State Law, 1945-1959
Includes text of 1945 bill.
Russell, George L. Jr. (Mr. and Mrs.)
Jones, Emma (N.Y. performer)
caption reads "pretty show girl in the 1930 edition of Leon Leslie's Blackbirds"