Date of Graduation
12-2021
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
History
Advisor/Mentor
Michael C. Pierce
Committee Member
Calvin White, Jr.
Second Committee Member
Charles Robinson
Keywords
Dispatch, Douglas, Dunjee, FEPC, Oklahoma, Tulsa
Abstract
On the World War II home front in Oklahoma the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) succeeded in securing defense jobs for African Americans. The efforts of the committee, The Oklahoma Eagle, the Oklahoma City Black Dispatch, and the State Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) advanced civil rights in Oklahoma throughout World War II and beyond. The efforts of the FEPC in Oklahoma connect civil rights efforts in the 1940s directly to Brown v Board of Education, (1954) and the classic civil rights movement.
Citation
Ward, A. (2021). [Dis]Assembling Race: The FEPC in Oklahoma, 1941-1946. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/4296
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