Milton Price Webster (April 23, 1887 – February 24, 1965) was an American trade unionist, best remembered as the first vice president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and leader of its Chicago division.

During the years of World War II, Webster was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Fair Employment Practice Committee and its successor commission, working to end racial discrimination in the defense industry.

The move was forced by Southern nationalist backlash against freedmen and women after Reconstruction, with threats and actions that induced financial hardship, beatings, and lynchings for many Black residents across the South.

One of Milton's earliest memories was of his witnessing of the Pullman Strike in 1894 first hand from his parents tenement apartment window, as white railroad strikers where beaten and shot by US Marshals and US Army Troops.

He was opposed by the Pullman Company, which had invested heavily in Chicago's Black community,[7] engaged in anti-union practices,[8] and recruited informants ("stool pigeons") to report any labor organization activity.

[9] As First Vice President of the BSCP and Chair of the International Executive Board, Webster handled most of the routine work of the union, while Randolph served as the public face.

[6] On June 25, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC).

Webster, a key organizer of the march, lead its powerful Chicago headquarters and helped it emerge as a national mass movement for jobs and justice for black Americans during World War II.

[13] In an effort to dodge potential racial conflict and its political ramifications, in July Roosevelt moved the FEPC from independent status under Presidential supervision to the direction of the War Manpower Commission, headed by Paul V.

[13] Milton Webster died unexpectedly on February 24, 1965,[16] at the Americana Hotel in Bar Harbour, Florida while attending an AFL-CIO convention with A. Philip Randolph.