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title: "What did A. Philip Randolph hope to accomplish by pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive order 8802?"  
description: "What did A. Philip Randolph hope to accomplish by pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive order 8802?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-04-25  
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category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What did A. Philip Randolph hope to accomplish by pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive order 8802?

What did A. [Philip Randolph](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42945/why-did-a-philip-randolph-plan-a-march-on-washington-in-1941) [hope to accomplish](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42690/according-to-their-own-statements-why-have-the-signers-of-the-mayflower-compact-come-to-the-new-world-what-do-they-hope-to-accomplish) by pressuring [President Franklin](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51330/what-did-the-bold-series-of-programs-and-reforms-that-president-franklin-roosevelt-launched-in-1935-come-to-be-called) D. Roosevelt to sign [Executive order](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42152/what-african-american-pressured-fdr-to-issue-an-executive-order-which-made-discrimination-in-hiring-illegal) 8802?


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