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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.
Clayola Brown (born Clayola Beatrice Oliver; 1948) is an African-American labor unionist, civil rights activist and International President of the APRI since August 2004. She is the first woman to take on this role.
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.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founder A. Philip Randolph, the public face of the union, in 1942. Founded in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, BSCP [1]) was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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.
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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.