When A. Philip Randolph first approached President Roosevelt in 1940, he was seeking

In 1940, A. Philip Randolph pressed President Roosevelt to end racial discrimination in defense industries, where workers produced supplies for the coming war effort. Roosevelt responded with Executive Order 8802 in 1941, which prohibited discrimination in defense employment. Randolph’s campaign for desegregating the military came later, so the correct choice is an end to discrimination in industries involved in producing goods for the war effort.

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