Box F.02

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...

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

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Includes published text of amended bill for state FEPC law in Indiana.

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

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Documentation of state employment law enactment in Massachusetts.

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Mainly coverage of investigations of employers and unions in Detroit, with some coverage of statewide FEPC in Michigan.

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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.