Executive Order 8802Superseded

Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry

Franklin D. Roosevelt

June 25, 1941

Summary

Prohibited racial discrimination in the national defense industry and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). Issued under pressure from A. Philip Randolph's threatened March on Washington, it was the first presidential action on civil rights since Reconstruction.

Topics

civil rightsemploymentdefense industryracial discrimination

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