Philip Randolph (front, center), president of ... President Franklin Roosevelt yielded to Randolph's demand. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in defense jobs ...

Philip Randolph (1889-1979), a labor unionist and civil rights ... Randolph successfully pressured President Roosevelt (1882-1945) to issue the historic Executive Order 8802 on July 31, 1941, which ...

Asa Philip Randolph founded and became the leader ... The 'Double V' campaign and Executive Order 8802 Many African-American servicemen in the US military supported the Double V campaign during ...

Philip Randolph and Malcolm X spring to mind ... Certainly too the contributions of some US Presidents deserve a mention - Franklin D Roosevelt, whose Executive Order 8802 outlawed discrimination in ...