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title: "What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal?"  
description: "What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-05-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42152/what-african-american-pressured-fdr-to-issue-an-executive-order-which-made-discrimination-in-hiring-illegal  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal?

What [African American](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51325/why-did-a-significatn-portion-of-the-african-american-populations-shift-as-a-result-of-world-war-2) pressured FDR to issue an [executive order](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40608/what-did-truman-s-executive-order-9981-call-for) which made [discrimination](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3667/twitter-failed-to-pay-millions-in-bonuses-violates-contract) in [hiring](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/311967/how-to-setup-an-effective-coding-test-a-guide-for-hiring-managers) illegal?


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