What motivated President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue an executive order preventing any company with a federal contract from d

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What motivated President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue an executive order preventing any company with a federal contract from d

iscriminating against potential employees based on race?

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d1i1m1o1n [39] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-28T18:24:41+03:00

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Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. ... Many citizens of Italian or German ethnicity were affected by World War II and this was impeding the war effort and lowering morale.

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