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The A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) is an organization for African-American trade unionists, a constituency group of the AFL-CIO, [2] that advocates social, labor, and economic change at the state and federal level, using legal and legislative means.
Asa Philip Randolph [1] (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was an American labor unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters , the first successful African-American -led labor union.
Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited to one third of one percent of the membership of the ASA. People named as Fellows are listed below.
Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for ...
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.
Retiring as president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1968, Asa Philip Randolph was named the president of the recently formed A. Philip Randolph Institute, established to promote trade unionism in the black community. He continued to serve on the AFL-CIO Executive until 1974. On May 16, 1979, Randolph died in New York. [3]
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A Word to Black Students, New York: A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1970; The Failure of Black Separatism, New York: A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1970; The Blacks and the Unions (contributor), New York: A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1971; Down the line; the collected writings of Bayard Rustin, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971