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Political And Economic Inequality In Washington

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Political and economic inequality of African American citizens caused two marches in Washington to be planned. A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, planned the first march in 1941. During the Great Depression, the “New Deal” was formed. The African American citizens had the least amount of benefits from these deals, as well as racial discrimination growing against them, and any jobs dealing with defense were denied from them. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not try to take action and stop these discrimination problems Randolph did. Randolph called for fifty thousand people to help him start a March on Washington. In June of 1941, Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 8802 to stop Randolph’s March

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