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June 1982

Labor Department’s first program to assist black workers

Henry P. Guzda

The philosophy of equal employment opportunity began with the Department's Division of Negro Economics, created to mobilize black workers for the war effort; however, the project was ahead of its time, and efforts to make it permanent were not successful.

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