The First Measured Century: Timeline: Events
Timeline:
EVENTS
Wave of Immigration
Hollerith Machine
Chicago World's Fair
Turner Frontier Essay
Growth of Cities
The Melting Pot
World War I
Sheppard-Towner Act
Immigration Laws
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression
1936 Election
World War II
Executive Order 8802
1948 Election
Civil Rights Act
Deregulation
"Goldilocks" Economy
Census 2000
Executive Order 8802
1941 - Defense plants initially resisted hiring African-Americans. But in 1941, A. Philip Randolph (front, center), president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened to have 100,000 blacks march on Washington to protest job discrimination. President Franklin Roosevelt yielded to Randolph's demand. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in defense jobs or government.
Executive Order 8802 constituted the first major federal government response to the plight of blacks since Reconstruction. Executive Order 8802 has been called a second Emancipation Proclamation. Sociologist William Julius Wilson has pointed out the war accelerated the entry of blacks into goods-producing industries and helped reduce black poverty.
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