Pennsylvania State Council for Fair Employment Practices Commission records, 1948-1959.

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Pennsylvania State Council for Fair Employment Practices Commission records, 1948-1959.

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The Pennsylvania State Council for Fair Employment Practices Commission records include correspondence with individuals and organizations (1949-1957), executive council meeting minutes and agendas, newspaper clippings (1948-1951), financial records (1951-1959), and office files. Among the financial documents are bank statements, receipts, travel expense reports, and records of organizational contributions. The office files include material concerning State House committees, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Governor's Commission on Race Relations, and the NAIRO Report Research Bulletin.

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practice Commission

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Following allegations of employment discrimination in Pennsylvania by a member of the state House of Representatives in 1945, an extensive research survey conducted in 1952 by the Governor-appointed Industrial Race Relations Commission found that 9 of 10 firms surveyed in Pennsylvania practiced employment discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin. In 1948, the Philadelphia Committee on Equal Job Opportunity (CEJO) established the State Council for a Pennsylvania Fair Employment ...