FBI Files on A. Philip Randolph on Microfilm, 1922-1970
Collection Number: 6079 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
FBI Files on A. Philip Randolph on Microfilm, 1922-1970
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6079 mf
Creator:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Quanitities:
0.11 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889-May 16, 1979) was a leader in the African-American
civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties.
He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly
black labor union. In the early civil-rights movement, Randolph led the March on Washington
Movement, which convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order
8802 in 1941, banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II.
The group then successfully pressured President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive
Order 9981 in 1948, ending segregation in the armed services.
In 1963, Randolph was the head of the March on Washington, which was organized by
Bayard Rustin, at which Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream"
speech. Randolph inspired the Freedom budget, sometimes called the "Randolph Freedom
budget", which aimed to deal with the economic problems facing the black community.[wikipedia]
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FBI Files on A. Philip Randolph on Microfilm #6079 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
The print guide to this collection is available in the Kheel Center reading room.
Names:
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigations
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