It wasn't King. It was the 74-year-old man standing next to Kennedy. Asa Philip Randolph. He grew up on Jacksonville's Eastside. There is a school, a park and a street named after him. A painting ...

In 1925, labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph was invited to be the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids. It was the first Black union to ...

Philip Randolph is especially timely and welcome. More of a political history than a biography, Pfeffer`s work sheds new light on the evolution of modern civil rights strategies and tactics ...

Randolph had first established himself as an influential Harlem Renaissance intellectual when he and Chandler Owen began publishing the socialist journal The Messenger in 1917. At a time when most ...

A. Philip Randolph, national president of the Negro American Labor Council and director of the March on Washington (AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

Philip Randolph, the labor leader and civil rights activist whose work in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s was crucial to the growth and success of the civil rights movement. He had a starring role at ...

Philip Randolph. “I wasn’t looking for this by any stretch of the imagination,” said Jennifer Grey, public services coordinator for Florida State College at Jacksonville’s library. “ ...

Asa Philip Randolph, the man who organized the march where Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I Have a Dream” speech, was a proud graduate of what is now Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School of ...

Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the youngest of two boys born in Crescent City, a small town in Putnam County. His parents were James and Elizabeth Randolph, a minister at Union Bethel A.M.E ...