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Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America - Events
March on Washington Movement (1940s)
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How did the March on Washington movement's critique of American democracy in the 1940s awaken African American women to the problem of jane crow?
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Taylor, Cynthia.
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Publication Date: 2007
Online Sources: March on Washington Movement (1940s)
"Straighten Up - And Come Right Down to the March on Washington Movement"
"Why Should We March?" (1941)
A. Philip Randolph to NAACP Secretary Walter White, March 18, 1941. Facsimile. NAACP Records
Asa Philip Randolph
Black Workers Call for a March on Washington
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Telegram from March on Washington Movement to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ca. March 27, 1943
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