Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial discrimination in the defense industry and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to ensure enforcement.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - A. Philip Randolph and the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - A. Philip Randolph and the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Civil Rights Tour: Employment - A. Philip Randolph and the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The Victorian rowhouse at 817 Q Street NW was, for more than three decades between 1943 and 1978, the local chapter office of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). Socialist labor rights advocate A. Philip Randolph…