{"value"=>"<p>The Discrimination subseries documents various forms of discrimination against blacks, aliens and Jews in the workplace, in education, in politics and in housing. In support of the New Deal and the war effort, the Federation sought to expose and defeat \"every person, organization or publication whose activities tend to create disunity\". Those included the Ku-Klux-Klan, the \"Poll Tax\" Democrats in Congress, and those \"guilty of lynching, mob violence and peonage\", whose \"seditious\" and \"fifth-column actions\" undermined national unity and morale. The file Racial Discrimination in the Armed Forces catalogs abuses, both administrative and social: lynching, enforced segregation, instances of black soldiers wounded, beaten or killed, especially in the South. The Housing and Schools file deals in part with white riots against the Sojourner Truth Defense Homes in Detroit initially constructed for black defense workers but eventually converted to all-white occupancy, and with the Hillburn school in Rockland County (NY) where some white parents protested the enforced segregation of their children to a private school after the admission of black children to the county's public school.</p> <p>The Federation documented a \"campaign of shocking lynching and mob violence in war production centers\" in eight states across the country over a 90 day period in 1943, as \"part of a conspiracy aimed at stopping war production and weakening the United Nations' war effort\". Substantive files were compiled on the race riots in Detroit, Mobile (Alabama) and New York City, where most of the violence occurred, and a petition drive was launched calling on President Roosevelt and his Attorney-General \"to arrest and prosecute the leaders of the KuKlux Klan, the America First Party, the National Workers League ... and to disband all pro-fascist groups in the United States\". These files consist of correspondence, Action Letters, press releases and other campaign material, a pamphlet \"Smash Detroit's Fifth Column!\" and newspaper clippings. Similar files were compiled on lynching and police brutality. Additional materials deal with U.S. policy toward Japanese-Americans, the blacklisting of anti-Fascists, and with legislative efforts to ban racial discrimination.</p>"}