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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born in Crescent City, Fla., Asa Philip Randolph came into the world on April 15, 1889 to James William Randolph and Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. Together, the tailor and the seamstress laid a ...

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 ...

A. Philip Randolph was a civil-rights leader who championed equal labor rights for black Americans. Along with his lieutenant, Bayard Rustin, he was one of the main organizers for the 1963 March ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...