Box LGL.04

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Detailed documentation of FEPC hearings held in Saint Louis in August 1944. Also includes a 1959 report of the FEPC committee of the city of St. Louis, which was created by local ordinance in 1956.

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Detailed coverage of February 1942 hearings on employment discrimination held by President's committee FEPC in February 1942.

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Detailed coverage of first state law barring discrimination in employment also known as the Ives-Quinn Act. Includes essay by Irving M. Ives "Why I favor a permanent state commission against discrimination as recommended by the NY State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination." Photographs include a demonstration, office closing, and workers.

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Coverage of discrimination cases heard by the FEPC in Cleveland (1942) and Cincinnati (1945). Cleveland cases concern Thompson Products Company and Warner-Swasey Company. Includes information about the Future Outlook League, a civil rights group in Cleveland.

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Includes multiple press releases from civil rights organizations urging the FEPC to reschedule railroad hearings that were cancelled in January 1943. Also includes a protest letter signed by Charles Houston and a release by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provisional Committee to organize Colored Locomotive Firemen dated December 1, 1943.

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Includes text of 1945 bill.

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Coverage of the actions of the Fair Employment Practice Committee in west coast cities, including Los Angeles, Ca. and Portland, Oregon in September 1943.

Scope and Contents Riot files mostly contain reporting and documentation on riots related to race in the United States between the 1930’s-1970’s. Reporting is on specific events like the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, as well as general incidents that are state and city specific. Files mainly contain reporting in the form of clippings,writings and photographs depicting the aftermath of riots. Some reporting on incidents like prison and military base riots contains documentation in the form of legal...

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Chicago and Cicero. Coverage of the legal case that occurred after the Cicero riots that happened in response to a black couple moving into a white neighborhood. Includes correspondence with the NAACP.