Fair Employment Practices Committee

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{"value"=>"<p>Subseries consists of correspondence, campaign and research material developed as part of a national effort to turn the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice empanelled by Executive Order in 1941 and 1943 into a permanent FEPC. Included are letters from the League of Women Shoppers urging an end to discrimination in the railroad industry and the Brooklyn Navy Yard; two letters from James Wolfe, Chief Justice in Utah and former correspondent to the President's Committee, warning of serious race riots in the aftermath of the war if greater equality in employment was not secured in time. There are also letters from congressmen and senators in response to letters and telegrams from Marshall urging them to vote for a permanent FEPC, including Wisconsin Representative Charles Lafollette who took Marshall and the National Negro Congress to task for using tactics more likely \"to see the 'right' prevail then to accomplish progress\". A solicitation telegram from Marshall brought dozens of endorsements from legal scholars, trade unions, religious leaders and other personalities, including Judge Jane Bolin, New York City Councilman Benjamin Davis, and Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky.</p>"}

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  1. Letters Received
  2. Letters Sent
  3. Correspondence
  4. Campaign Material
  5. Attacks against FEPC
  6. How it Grew, How it Operates
  7. Prominent Citizens Support
  8. Appropriation
  9. For a Permanent Agency
  10. New York State FEPC
  11. Marshall Statement to Senate Committee
  12. Printed Matter, Clippings