Fair Employment Practices Committee records, 1943-1946.

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Fair Employment Practices Committee records, 1943-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51552119

The collection consists of information on the March on Washington Movement, the Congress on Racial Equality, a plan to picket the Capitol in an effort to force the Senate to consider an anti-poll tax bill, and an attempt to force the Capitol Transit Company to hire African-Americans.

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Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

United States. Fair Employment Practices Committee.

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President Franklin Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practices Committee by Executive Order in 1942. It required all federal agencies to include in their contracts with private employers a provision obligating them not to discriminate against persons of any race, color, creed, or nationality in matters of employment. From the description of Fair Employment Practices Committee records, 1943-1946. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 51552119 ...