Executive Order 8802
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title:
Executive Order 8802
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Executive Order 8802 was an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941. It prohibited ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry, including in companies, unions, and federal agencies. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee. Executive Order 8802 was the first federal action, though not a law, to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States. It represented the first executive civil rights
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1941 United States executive order by President Franklin Roosevelt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_8802
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2024-04-10T18:51:58Z
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