A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (born 1889)

A. Philip Randolph

American civil rights activist (1889–1979)

Asa Philip Randolph 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. In the early Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement, Randolph was a…