"Negro Victory Committee (1941-1945)

The Los Angeles Negro Victory Committee was organized in 1941 to protest discrimination in industries throughout the city that barred African Americans workers.Reverend Clayton Russell of the people's Independent Church of Christ in South Central Los Angeles  and Charlotta Bass,publisher of the California Eagle,the largest African American newspaper in the state,gathered prominent public officials,professionals,union leaders,and NAACP members,along with his church's congregation,o create the committee in 1941.
The Committee initially sought to gain employment in defense industries that discriminated against African Americans workers prior to and during the early years of World War 2.They were.
One of many organizations throughout the country galvanize around the "Double V" campaign to fight both international and domestic racism.With Rev.Russell using his
weekly radio program and Charlotta using her newspaper,The Negro Committee became the leader in the effort to integrate Southern California's defense industries
The Negro Victory Committee coordinated numerous mass meetings to protest discriminatory practices.They led fights to locate defense industry jobs training centers in Watts,hire African American and locomotive drivers on the Los Angeles Railway (LARY),an challenged exclusion and racism in the armed forces and labor unions.They also organized campaigns to protest housing segregation and quotas for whites in city employment.One of their most successful campaigns was the 1942 protest against the United States Employment Services (USES)  in 1942.The Committee's  protest march ended USE'S policy of placy African American women exclusively in janitorial and service ppositions in defense plants.The activities of the Negro Victory Committee propelled the Committee's leadership into important positions in corporations and city government during and after World War 2.
Rev.Russell's popular appeal waned after his unsuccessful 1945 campaign for Los Angeles County's Board Supervisors.Like many wartime organizations,the Committee faded by the end of the World War 2 in 1945.