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unusual facts about A. Philip Randolph


Sikivu Hutchinson

Hutchinson examines the humanist beliefs of writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, A. Philip Randolph and Alice Walker.


Andrew J. Thomas

Notable Harlem residents who moved to the complex included W. E. B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson and Bill Robinson.

Annie B. Martin

Born in Eastover, South Carolina to Jacob and Queenie Martin, the seventh of eight children, Martin was introduced as a small child by her father to labor activist A. Philip Randolph.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

The leaders of the BSCP—including A. Philip Randolph, its founder and first president, and C. L. Dellums, its vice president and second president—became leaders in the civil rights movement and continued to play a significant role in it after it focused on the eradication of segregation in the South.

Theophilus Lewis

Theophilus Lewis (1891–1974) was an African-American drama critic, a writer, and a magazine editor during the Harlem Renaissance whose contributions primarily appeared in The Messenger, the socialist African-American magazine founded by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen.


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Frank Crosswaith

Crosswaith also worked with A. Philip Randolph during World War II in organizing the March on Washington Movement, which was called off when President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to sign Executive Order 8802, which prohibited racial discrimination in defense industries.