enforce nondiscrimination in hiring workers in defense industries.
enforce nondiscrimination
To ensure that defense plants and government offices did not discriminate against minorities
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Fair Employment Practices Commission
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) was introduced by President Roosevelt to deal with discrimination at workplaces.
The Fair Employment Practices Commission.
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
To prevent racial discrimination towards workers. It was signed by FDR after WWII, out of respect for all the different racial soldiers that fought in the war.
Labor and Civil Rights leader in the 1940s who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; he demanded that FDR create a Fair Employment Commission to investigate job discrimination in war industries. FDR agreed only after he threatened a march on Washington by African Americans.
Fair Employment Practices Committee was created in 1941.