Word: fepc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts in their three-hour long conference with FEPC representatives. Neither Chi nor Roberts belong to HYP, which told the CRIMSON it would make no further move on the case until the FEPC has had a chance...
Bluestone indicated that a delegation from YPII might accompany Chi and Roberts before the FEPC. "What we want," he insisted, "is a job for Chi, who was the first to apply and who needs it badly...
Humphrey moved into the Victorian-looking mayor's office and started to rattle the stained-glass windows. He gave his cops a single order-close down or else, Minneapolis closed down overnight, even to the slot machines at American Legion hall. He pushed through a city FEPC which made it a misdemeanor ($100 or 90 days) to discriminate in employment. He warned management that he would not use police to break up picket lines. When the labor bosses who had helped put him in office protested his selection of a police chief, Humphrey told them flatly...
...FEPC law: "It would force all business and business relationships into a Washington pattern guided and enforced by a federal Gestapo...
That revolt could be dated roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln...