Executive Order 8802

The Executive Order 8802, also known as the Fair Employment Act ( German "Law on equal employment " ), is a Presidential Decree of 25 June 1941 to the 32th President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt put into effect.

Content of Presidential Decree was a ban on all racial discrimination in all agencies of the Federal Government of the United States and in all companies, an important war orders received from the federal government. To enforce this law Roosevelt laid the foundation for the creation of an authority called Fair Employment Practices Commission, the Senate repeatedly stood in the way up to the task of the project.