- Headline
-
President Orders an Even Break for Minorities in Defense Jobs
- Sub-Headline
- He Issues an Order That Defense Contract Holders Not Allow Discrimination Against Negroes or Any Worker
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, June 25, 1941
- Historical Event
-
Massive March on Washington Planned
This database includes 338 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 12
- Author/Byline
- The New York Times
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Erin D.
- Location of Research
- https://www.nytimes.com/search/
Learn More about this Historical Event: Massive March on Washington Planned
- 1941 - Plans for a March on Washington (FDR Library)
- American Memory: African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
- Patriotism Crosses the Color Line: African Americans in World War II (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
- FDR, A. Philip Randolph and the Desegregation of the Defense Industries - Lesson Plan, grades 9-12 (The White House Historical Association)
- Global Nonviolent Action Database (Swarthmore College)
Bibliography
Bracey, J.H, and Meier, A. “Allies or Adversaries?: The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 1-17.
Kersten, Andrew Edmund. A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Morehouse, Maggi M. Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Weir, William. The Encyclopedia of African American Military History. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.
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