Executive Order 8802

The Executive Order 8802 is a presidential decree of 25 June 1941 to the 32th President of the United States , Franklin D. Roosevelt , put into force.

The content of the presidential decree was a prohibition of any kind of racial discrimination in all authorities of the federal government and in all companies that received military orders from it. To enforce this decree, Roosevelt laid the foundation for the creation of an agency called the Fair Employment Practices Commission , which the Senate stood in the way several times before the project was abandoned .

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Wikisource: Executive Order 8802  - Sources and full texts (English)