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- catalog abstract ""The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice (FEPC) was established by Franklin Roosevelt in response to an intense lobbying campaign led by black leaders who challenged his administration to eliminate racial discrimination in U.S. defense plants. In this examination of the FEPC's work, focusing on the pivotal Midwest, Andrew Edmund Kersten shows how this tiny government agency influenced the course of civil rights reform and moved the United States closer to a national fair employment policy." "Race, Jobs and the War looks across the Midwest at the accomplishments and failures of a New Deal organization that laid the foundation for today's contested affirmative action practices. Rejecting claims that black advancement during the war was due primarily to shortages of labor, Kersten contends that the FEPC made significant strides in allaying discrimination, especially when local authorities cooperated. Efforts to foster racial equality in the southern region of the Midwest suffered from managerial stonewalling and white hostility, Kersten finds, while areas farther north saw more support from government officials and community and union activists and correspondingly greater success in reversing discriminatory patterns."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11635941.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Race, Jobs and the War looks across the Midwest at the accomplishments and failures of a New Deal organization that laid the foundation for today's contested affirmative action practices. Rejecting claims that black advancement during the war was due primarily to shortages of labor, Kersten contends that the FEPC made significant strides in allaying discrimination, especially when local authorities cooperated. Efforts to foster racial equality in the southern region of the Midwest suffered from managerial stonewalling and white hostility, Kersten finds, while areas farther north saw more support from government officials and community and union activists and correspondingly greater success in reversing discriminatory patterns."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice (FEPC) was established by Franklin Roosevelt in response to an intense lobbying campaign led by black leaders who challenged his administration to eliminate racial discrimination in U.S. defense plants. In this examination of the FEPC's work, focusing on the pivotal Midwest, Andrew Edmund Kersten shows how this tiny government agency influenced the course of civil rights reform and moved the United States closer to a national fair employment policy."".
- catalog description "1. "A Refreshing Shower in a Thirsty Land": The Creation of the First FEPC -- 2. The Publicity Campaign and the Chicago Precedents -- 3. Ruin and Rebirth: The Creation of the Second FEPC -- 4. The Chicago Office: The FEPC and Illinois, 1943-45 -- 5. The Limits of Activism: The FEPC in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota -- 6. The FEPC in the Buckeye State -- 7. The FEPC and the Motor City -- 8. Stretching the Social Pattern: The FEPC and St. Louis -- 9. A "Vicious and Destructive Attack": Congress and the End of the FEPC -- App. A. Compliance Data from Companies Attending the 19-20 January 1942 Chicago Hearings -- App. B. Wartime Hate Strike Data.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 210 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252025636 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "Middle West".
- catalog subject "331.13/3/097709044 21".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in employment Middle West History.".
- catalog subject "HD4903.5.U58 K47 2000".
- catalog subject "Illinois. Fair Employment Practices Commission History.".
- catalog subject "United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. "A Refreshing Shower in a Thirsty Land": The Creation of the First FEPC -- 2. The Publicity Campaign and the Chicago Precedents -- 3. Ruin and Rebirth: The Creation of the Second FEPC -- 4. The Chicago Office: The FEPC and Illinois, 1943-45 -- 5. The Limits of Activism: The FEPC in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota -- 6. The FEPC in the Buckeye State -- 7. The FEPC and the Motor City -- 8. Stretching the Social Pattern: The FEPC and St. Louis -- 9. A "Vicious and Destructive Attack": Congress and the End of the FEPC -- App. A. Compliance Data from Companies Attending the 19-20 January 1942 Chicago Hearings -- App. B. Wartime Hate Strike Data.".
- catalog title "Race, jobs, and the war : the FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46 / Andrew Edmund Kersten.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".