A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979), who received an honorary degree from Brandeis in 1969, founded the first independent black labor union in the United States when he organized the Brotherhood of ...

And, at least briefly, Garvey enjoyed their support. But by 1920, A. Philip Randolph and other black leaders, some of whom had supported Garvey after his arrival in the United States, came to ...

Asa Philip Randolph founded and became the leader of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), an African-American trade union. Randolph and his fellow porters were low paid, worked long ...