BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Labor pioneer A. Philip Randolph’s living legacies are today’s Black union leaders
General News,Black History Month
Rightfully, a host of tributes across America recognize the achievements of pioneering Black union leader A. Philip Randolph — his historic founding of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, and pressing U.S. presidents to act against federal discrimination before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1989, a U.S. postage stamp marked the 100th anniversary of his birth; schools and streets bear his name, and then there’s the Pullman National Historical Park — a National Parks Service historic site. The nonprofit National A. Philip Randolph Pullman...
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