The MOWM was to be the “watchdog” over the enactment of Order 8802. Aug. 22, 2020. The idea that masses of blacks would be brought into one of the most segregated cities in the country shocked and frightened the white community. It also reserved to itself the selection of battalion chiefs and deputy inspectors both at the point of assembly and throughout the line of March.Not knowing how to react to the new situation of pressure tactics employed by Randolph and worried by the prospect of thousands of black participants descending upon Washington, President Roosevelt enlisted Eleanor Roosevelt and Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City and a friend of Randolph’s, to intercede and try to convince Randolph to cancel the March (the meeting was held on June 13). National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), through all its local branches (New York, Chicago and other cities); National Negro Congress and its affiliates (such as the Chicago Congress of Negro Organizations); Randolph’s Socialist associates; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from Act-up to Women's Suffrage. I'll call up the heads of the various defense plants and have them see to it that Negroes are given the same opportunity to work in defense plants as any other citizen in the country.Philip Randolph: We want you to do more than that. In Montgomery, Alabama, E. D. Nixon, head of the local BSCP and president of the NAACP local chapter, participated by organizing transportation to get participants to Washington.
In May Randolph issued a "Call to Negro America to March on Washington for Jobs and Equal Participation in National Defense on July, 1, 1941". The Chicago BSCP drew upon the new-crowd protest networks, which they had helped shape, to mobilize black Chicago for the proposed March on Washington. The major demand for jobs had been met through the Order, which Randolph regarded as a first step. Although Roosevelt promised to investigate the matter, he issued a statement declaring that a segregation policy would be maintained in the military. They want to do none of these things. The proposal for a nationwide mass demonstration for a greater black share in the defense effort had been put forth in January 1941, but it wasn’t until the spring of 1941 that A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), called for a march on Washington, D. C., to challenge the discrimination that African Americans were faced with in the national defense industry. (2)Powers, Rogers S, William B Vogele, Christopher Kruegler, and Ronald M McCarthy. This theoretical grounding predisposed him to view the black working class, not the blac… The President later created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to help ensure that defense manufacturers would not practice racial discrimination. The 1941 March on Washington campaign, precursor of the 1963 March on Washington, was an important moment in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. By March 1941 Randolph was educating readers of the Black Worker, the press organ of the BSCP, to his plan. They also experienced discrimination from businesses an… Chapel Hill (N.C.): University of North Carolina Press, 2001Ruchames, Louis. The 2020 Virtual March on Washington will take place on August 28, 2020, on the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. This year, ... A March 20 Years in the Making. Radical Pacifism – The War Resisters League and Gandhian Non-Violence in America 1915 – 1963. Now, what are you going to do about it?Franklin D. Roosevelt: Well, Phil, what do you want me to do?Philip Randolph: Mr. President, we want you to do something that will enable Negro workers to get work in these plants.Franklin D. Roosevelt: Why, I surely want them to work, too. Keeping the faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937. In June 1941, in response to this specter, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 and created the Committee on Fair Employment Practices.