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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, A. Philip Randolph papers [LC-USZ62-104695]
Rufus Merritt

The FEPC

The Girl Friends of the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) present Asa Philip Randolph with a check for $500, to support its struggle. Randolph was the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American labor union. The FEPC operated only from 1941 to 1946, and its effectiveness is unclear; but employment of African Americans in the federal government did grow rapidly at that time. Discrimination in defense industries, however, continued in spite of the FEPC, which faced opposition from the South and suffered from bureaucratic inefficiency. The March on Washington Movement continued after the demise of the FEPC, finding renewed expression in the civil rights movement and the March on Washington of 1963.

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Image ID:	09_082
Title:	The girl friends for the FEPC Fight presenting check of $500 to Asa Philip Randolph, in office of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in New York City, January 7, 1950.
Name:	Merritt, Rufus () - Photographer
Depicted:	7 January 1950
Location:	Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, A. Philip Randolph papers [LC-USZ62-104695]
Subjects:	African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
	African American women political activists
	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. New York Division
	Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-
	United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice

Keywords:	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
	Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
	March on Washington, 1941
	Randolph, A. Philip
	Trade Unions
	Women - United States