African Americans - President Franklin Roosevelt
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 15-05-17 12:36
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- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (contributions to Civil Rights in green; negative contributions in red)
- Refused to support bill making lynching federal crime because he feared bill would cause southern Congressmen to block all of his other programs
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933 provided work for unemployed people
- Anticipated legislation of 1960s and 1970s
- Statement that 'no discrimination should be made by account of race, color or creed'
- 1,154,720 AAs in US armed forces from 1941-1945
- Executive Order 8802
- June 1941
- Prevent discrimination in defence industries
- FDR passed Executive Order 8587 in Nov 1940
- Prohibited discrimination on basis of race, colour or creed
- De Preist single representative in Congress for 11 million AAs
- Lost seat in 1935
- Some AAs benefited from ND legislation such as Fair Labor Standards Act but did not cover agriculture or domestic service, many AAs excluded.
- None of legislation had as its primary objective any overall plan to increase racial inequality or extend civil rights
- FDR under pressure to ensure supply of labour for defence and influenced by threat of 100,000-strong 'March on Washington' organised by Philip Randolph
- AAs in army but fought in segregated units
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