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blacks. Oh, yes, this was discussed in War Manpower, because you see the Government had taken over an office building in some town in Texas. You know, they had never had blacks in the office.

Interviewer:

Did I ask you about F.E.C.P.?

Perkins:

I don't know anything about it, anyway. It was a nuisance.

Interviewer:

It came in right in here, at the end of the War.

Perkins:

At the end of the War? '4, '45? It was a Presidential order. Didn't have any standing. No, it didn't come out of War Manpower. It came out of the White House.

It was a political move.

Interviewer:

A political move designed to solve a strictly local situation, in Washington, D.C.

Perkins:

In Washington, D.C.? No, I don't know the story. I didn't even know there was any situation. I thought it was an effort to placate the Negro politicians.

Interviewer:

It was in part.

Perkins:

Well, I think it was mostly, because There wasn't any situation, really.





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