Executive Order 8802

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 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition What is This?

Executive Order 8802

Order issued by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 outlawing racial discrimination in hiring defense industry and government workers.

See also Fair Employment Practices Committee; Military, Blacks in the American; National Urban League.

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