The purpose of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., a nine-volume documentary edition, is to facilitate scholarly study of the long-ignored legislative phase of the modern civil rights movement by making readily available selected annotated records that Mitchell, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, prepared at (1) the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) when he worked there during World War II to enforce President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policy to end discrimination in the defense industry; and (2) the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during the struggle he led from 1946 to 1950 to end discrimination in labor unions, and from 1950 to 1978 to get Congress to pass civil rights laws and the Administrative Branch of Government to promulgate and enforce policies to protect the constitutional rights of African Americans and other citizens against discrimination.