Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 created the Fair Employment Practices Committee that
A) enforced equal wages for men and women in war industries.
B) equalized government purchases of war materials between factories in different states.
C) determined which business and industries were necessary to the war effort and which were not.
D) barred discrimination by race, creed, color, or national origin in war industries.
Answer: D
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