The Fair Employment Practice Committee was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "banning discriminatory employment practices by Fed
An FEPC press conference, c. 1942
From left to right: Vito Marcantonio, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., three congressmen unsuccessful in their attempt to save the FEPC
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids was a labor union in the United States. Founded in 1925, it was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the Amer
Fair Employment Practice Committee
…of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin." A. Philip Randolph, the founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, had lobbied with other activists for such provisions because of the wide discrimination against African Americans in employment across the country…
Coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in The Chicago Defender, September 23, 1950
A Pullman Porter, photographed in Chicago in 1943
A Pullman Porter making the bed of an upper berth, 1942