Box 139
Container
Contains 7 Results:
Subcommittees, 1961-1964, undated
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the subsubseries:
In 1961, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) chaired by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the PCEEO in 1961 as one of two black members. The PCEEO worked to eliminate discrimination from government employment. The main components of Executive Order 10925 gave the PCEEO the authority to investigate the employment practices of government agencies to ensure that...
Dates:
1961-1964, undated
Telephone Conversation Between Carson Bain and McNeil Smith, undated
File — Box: 139, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the subsubseries:
In 1961, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) chaired by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the PCEEO in 1961 as one of two black members. The PCEEO worked to eliminate discrimination from government employment. The main components of Executive Order 10925 gave the PCEEO the authority to investigate the employment practices of government agencies to ensure that...
Dates:
undated
Travel Expenses, 1961-1964
File — Box: 139, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the subsubseries:
In 1961, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) chaired by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the PCEEO in 1961 as one of two black members. The PCEEO worked to eliminate discrimination from government employment. The main components of Executive Order 10925 gave the PCEEO the authority to investigate the employment practices of government agencies to ensure that...
Dates:
1961-1964
Wheeler's Handwritten Notes, undated
File — Box: 139, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the subsubseries:
In 1961, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) chaired by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the PCEEO in 1961 as one of two black members. The PCEEO worked to eliminate discrimination from government employment. The main components of Executive Order 10925 gave the PCEEO the authority to investigate the employment practices of government agencies to ensure that...
Dates:
undated
White House Conference, 1961-1965, undated
File — Box: 139, Folder: 7-13
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the subsubseries:
In 1961, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 creating the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) chaired by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the PCEEO in 1961 as one of two black members. The PCEEO worked to eliminate discrimination from government employment. The main components of Executive Order 10925 gave the PCEEO the authority to investigate the employment practices of government agencies to ensure that...
Dates:
1961-1965, undated
President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity In Housing, 1962-1965
File — Box: 139, Folder: 14
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the Series:
This series contains the bulk of the material in the John H. Wheeler collection documenting his extensive work throughout Durham, North Carolina and the nation as a Black businessman and civil rights leader. After graduating from Morehouse College in 1929, he left Atlanta for Durham, North Carolina where he was employed at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a sister institution to the North Carolina Mutual Trust. He became the president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank in 1952 and under Wheeler's...
Dates:
1962-1965
President's Committee on Government Contracts, 1957-1958
File — Box: 139, Folder: 15
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents
From the Series:
This series contains the bulk of the material in the John H. Wheeler collection documenting his extensive work throughout Durham, North Carolina and the nation as a Black businessman and civil rights leader. After graduating from Morehouse College in 1929, he left Atlanta for Durham, North Carolina where he was employed at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a sister institution to the North Carolina Mutual Trust. He became the president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank in 1952 and under Wheeler's...
Dates:
1957-1958