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A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (1996)

24 Jan

86m; U.S.

The Attorney General of the United States called A. Philip Randolph “the most dangerous Negro in America.” He forced President Roosevelt to integrate the armed forces, won the first-ever contract for a Black union when he organized the Pullman porters and was the moving force behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.

 

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