The Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries Executive Order 8802, co-authored by Rayford Logan and signed by Franklin Roosevelt

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Rayford Logan, Historian
The Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries Executive Order 8802, co-authored by Rayford Logan and signed by Franklin Roosevelt
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Rayford Logan, Historian

Although best known for his achievements as a historian and public intellectual, Rayford Logan (1897-1982) was, at heart, an activist devoted to the advancement of Africans and their descendants all over the world. After being exposed to racist…