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The A. Philip Randolph Career and Technical Center in Detroit, Michigan is named in his honor. The A. Philip Randolph Institute is named in his honor. Public School 76 A. Philip Randolph in New York City is named in his honor; A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is in Chicago's Pullman Historic District. Edward Waters College in ...
A. Philip Randolph bust, by Ed Dwight, in Union Station; Emancipation Memorial, by Thomas Ball featuring Abraham Lincoln and a newly freed slave, in Lincoln Park (Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson, by Allen Uzikee Nelson, Petworth neighborhood, at the intersection of Georgia Avenue, Varnum Street, and Kansas Avenue
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10,000 Black Men Named George is a 2002 Showtime TV movie about A. Philip Randolph and his coworkers Milton P. Webster and Ashley Totten. The title refers to the custom of the time when Pullman porters, all of whom were black, were addressed as "George"; a sobriquet for George Pullman, who owned the company that built the sleeping cars (and other Railroad cars) and the industry.
The March on Washington Movement (MOWM), 1941–1946, organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin [1] was a tool designed to pressure the U.S. government into providing fair working opportunities for African Americans and desegregating the armed forces by threat of mass marches on Washington, D.C. during World War II.
A. Philip Randolph: Iota Sigma (Richmond, Virginia) Founder, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, primary organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. [7] Arleigh Winston Scott: Epsilon Sigma (New York) First native Governor-General of Barbados, knighted by the Queen of the United Kingdom in 1967 [19] Al ...
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