The "Double V" campaign most directly contributed to which wartime development?
- A
Federal repeal of Jim Crow laws in 1942.
- Bcheck_circle
FDR's Executive Order 8802 banning racial discrimination in defense industries and creating the FEPC.
- C
African American support for the Republican Party.
- D
Integration of the U.S. armed forces during WWII.
Explanation
Pressure from A. Philip Randolph's threatened March on Washington (1941) and the Pittsburgh Courier's "Double V" campaign helped produce Executive Order 8802 (1941), which created the Fair Employment Practices Committee. Truman ultimately desegregated the military in 1948.