Executive Order 8802: Fair employment practice in defense industries
Dark navy notice sheet with the Great Seal above the title 'Executive Order 8802, Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries' and an excerpt barring discrimination in defense employment because of race, creed, color or national origin, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is a posted notice; the technique is faint, the seal and signature lending presidential authority.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The President of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Race and ethnicity, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
The President of the United States. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-743 (NAID 514231).
Text on the object
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802 FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE IN DEFENSE INDUSTRIES ...... I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the em- ployment of workers in defense industries or Government because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and equitable partici- pation of all workers in defense industries, without dis- crimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin ......* [signature:] Franklin D Roosevelt THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE WHITE HOUSE June 25, 1941 *Excerpt from Executive Order 8802 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1942 O 461873
