Box LGL.04

Documents cover the work of a national coalition of groups urging the creation of a permanent FEPC as the wartime committee wound down, in the face of opposition to FEPC among southern senators.

Includes details of Truman's executive orders 9980 and 10,308. Unfavorable commentary by Clarence Mitchell of the Washington NAACP.

Contains documentation of 1942 hearings in Birmingham, Alabama concerning employment practice in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Includes text of NAACP California Supreme Court case Joseph James et al v. Marinship Corporation. Included among photographs is AFRO reporter Bettye Murphy Phillips at Los Angeles hearing. See also: FEPC - U.S. - West Coast Hearings

Includes transcripts and other documentation of the January 1942 hearings of manufacturing companies and the April 1942 hearings of AFL unions.

Documentation of efforts to draft, pass, and enforce a local FEPC ordinance in Baltimore City.

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.

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