<P> The March on Washington Movement ( MOWM ) , 1941 -- 1946 , organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin as a tool to produce a mass march on Washington , D.C. , was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans . When President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941 , prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry under contract to federal agencies , Randolph and collaborators called off the march . </P>
<P> The March on Washington Movement ( MOWM ) , 1941 -- 1946 , organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin as a tool to produce a mass march on Washington , D.C. , was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans . When President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941 , prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry under contract to federal agencies , Randolph and collaborators called off the march . </P>
who organized a march on washington to protest discrimination on july 1 1941
who organized a march on washington to protest discrimination on july 1 1941
A. Philip Randolph Bayard Rustin
A. Philip Randolph Bayard Rustin