Executive Order 8802 1690379 217311363 2008-06-05T14:10:49Z Cydebot 1215485 Robot - Moving category African-American history to African American history per [[WP:CFD|CFD]] at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 16]]. '''Executive Order 8802''' (also known as the '''Fair Employment Act''') was signed by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] on [[June 25]], [[1941]] to prohibit [[racism|racial discrimination]] in the national [[Military-industrial complex|defense industry]]. It was the first federal law to promote [[equal opportunity]] and prohibit employment discrimination in the [[United States]]. The [[Executive order (United States)|executive order]] was issued in response to pressure from civil rights activists [[Bayard Rustin]], [[A. Philip Randolph]], and [[A. J. Muste]] who had planned a march on [[Washington, D.C.]] to protest racial discrimination. The march was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was issued. The order required all [[List of United States federal agencies|federal agencies and departments]] involved with defense production to ensure that vocational and training programs were administered without discrimination as to "race, [[creed]], [[human skin color|color]], or national origin." All defense contracts were to include provisions that barred private contractors from discrimination as well. The Committee on Fair Employment Practice was established by Executive Order 8802 within the [[Office of Production Management]] to investigate alleged violations and "to take appropriate steps to redress grievances which it finds to be valid." The Committee was also supposed to make recommendations to federal agencies and to the president on how Executive Order 8802 could be made the most effective. Executive Order 8802 was followed by [[Executive Order 9981]] in [[1948]] and years later, by [[Civil Rights Act of 1964#Title VII|Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act]] and [[Executive Order 11246]] in 1965. ==References== *Roy L. Brooks, et al., ''Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives'', 2nd ed. pp. 398-99. Carolina Academic Press, 2000. ==External links== {{Wikisource}} *[http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/35th/thelaw/eo-8802.html Full text of Executive Order 8802] [[Category:Executive orders of Franklin D. Roosevelt|8802]] [[Category:History of civil rights in the United States]] [[Category:African American history]] [[Category:Black history in the United States military]] [[Category:Military history of the United States 1900-1999]] [[Category:1941 in law]] [[Category:1941 in the United States]] [[Category:History of the United States (1918–1945)]]