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Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946 by David Lucander (review)

Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946 by David Lucander... reviews / comptes rendus / 259 David Lucander, Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941­1946 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2014) In exchange for a presidential ban on racial discrimination by employers producing war matériel for the US federal government and creating a Fair Employment Practices Committee (fepc), African-American labour leader A. Philip Randolph cancelled a threatened protest rally by Black workers in Washington, DC on the eve of US entry into World War II. While eventually killed by Congress, the fepc was instrumental in raising Black employment to six million by 1944. However, little is known about Randolph's shortlived March on Washington Movement (mowm) that fought to secure gainful employment for Blacks in defence industries and public services. The latest edition of a labour history classic does not refer to mowm. (Melvin Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America [Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2010]) Besides an entry in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, the group attracts little attention. (Eric Arnesen, ed. [London: Routledge, 2007]) As David Lucander argues, mowm's significance does not solely rest on the release of Executive Order (eo) 8802. mowm and the fepc were not the products http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Labour / Le Travail The Canadian Committee on Labour History

Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946 by David Lucander (review)

Labour / Le Travail , Volume 76 (1) – Nov 20, 2015
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reviews / comptes rendus / 259 David Lucander, Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941­1946 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2014) In exchange for a presidential ban on racial discrimination by employers producing war matériel for the US federal government and creating a Fair Employment Practices Committee (fepc), African-American labour leader A. Philip Randolph cancelled a threatened protest rally by Black workers in Washington, DC on the eve of US entry into World War II. While eventually killed by Congress, the fepc was instrumental in raising Black employment to six million by 1944. However, little is known about Randolph's shortlived March on Washington Movement (mowm) that fought to secure gainful employment for Blacks in defence industries and public services. The latest edition of a labour history classic does not refer to mowm. (Melvin Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America [Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2010]) Besides an entry in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, the group attracts little attention. (Eric Arnesen, ed. [London: Routledge, 2007]) As David Lucander argues, mowm's significance does not solely rest on the release of Executive Order (eo) 8802. mowm and the fepc were not the products

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