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Box 1506

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Picket of Capitol; Capitol Transit Company, 1944

 File — Box: 1506, Folder: 3
Scope and Content of the Records From the Collection: The Fair Employment Practices Committee, Collection, 1943-1946, consists of information on the March on Washington Movement, the Congress of Racial Equality, a plan to picket the Capitol in an effort to force the Senate to consider an anti-poll tax bill, and an attempt to force the Capitol Transit Company to hire Negroes. These documents were obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a Freedom of Information request by Dr. Merl Reed of the Georgia State University history faculty...
Dates: 1944