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June 25th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1941
    Context

    Executive Order 8802 signed

    President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 banning discrimination in the defense industry, six days before A. Philip Randolph's threatened March on Washington. The order establishes the Fair Employment Practice Committee, the first federal civil-rights enforcement body since Reconstruction.

  2. 2013
    The Record

    Shelby County v. Holder decided

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5 to 4 in Shelby County v. Holder that the coverage formula of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional, gutting the preclearance regime that had blocked discriminatory election rules since 1965.

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