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unusual facts about Asa 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.


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A. Philip Randolph Campus High School

Retiring as president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1968, Asa Philip Randolph was named the president of the recently formed A. Philip Randolph Institute, established to promote trade unionism in the black community.