Box F.02

Detailed coverage of first state law barring discrimination in employment also known as the Ives-Quinn Act. Includes essay by Irving M. Ives "Why I favor a permanent state commission against discrimination as recommended by the NY State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination." Photographs include a demonstration, office closing, and workers.

Coverage of complaint by Tezzavant W. Anderson of discrimination in Charlotte, NC police force.

Coverage of discrimination cases heard by the FEPC in Cleveland (1942) and Cincinnati (1945). Cleveland cases concern Thompson Products Company and Warner-Swasey Company. Includes information about the Future Outlook League, a civil rights group in Cleveland.

Photograph shows organizers for Green County FEPC in a dinner meeting.

See also FEPC - U.S. - West Coast Hearings

Includes multiple press releases from civil rights organizations urging the FEPC to reschedule railroad hearings that were cancelled in January 1943. Also includes a protest letter signed by Charles Houston and a release by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provisional Committee to organize Colored Locomotive Firemen dated December 1, 1943.

Includes text of proposed city law of 1944, and photographs of hearings, committee members, and promotional signs.

Includes text of 1945 bill.