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The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Asa Philip Randolph [1] (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was an American labor unionist and civil rights activist.
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).
As chairman of SNCC, Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders who were organizing the March on Washington that summer. The youngest, [45] he was scheduled as the fourth to speak, ahead of the final speaker, Dr. Martin Luther King. Other leaders were Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins.
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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.
Stephen Chase Randolph, a Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Trump fan gets eight years for assaulting ...
A. Philip Randolph: 1889 1979 United States: labor and civil rights movement leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan: 1890 1988 Pakistan: Pashtun independence activist and strong advocate for non-violence. Founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. B. R. Ambedkar: 1891 1956 India