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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 ...
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.
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.
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).
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Acknowledged as the greatest black labor leader in American history, Asa Philip Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Pioneers in advancing racial equality within the labor movement. Randolph was involved in campaigns to improve wages and working conditions for black and white alike.
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.
Philip Randolph—the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, [5] and vice president of the AFL–CIO—was a key instigator in 1941. With Bayard Rustin , Randolph called for 100,000 black workers to march on Washington, [ 3 ] in protest of discriminatory hiring during World War II by ...