You have probably heard of the slavery age. The slavery age was the time where people were treated differently for their race or skin color. Stereotypes were the biggest factor in society at the time. Living conditions were terrible, making you wish you were dead. It was not all flowers and roses. People paid for their actions. There was the man. A man that changed it all, that man was A. Philip Randolph. Randolph was an African American activist.
You have probably heard of the dark ages of America. The dark ages or slavery age in the USA was the time where people of different ethnicities and nationalities were subject to discrimination, ranging from racist comments to violent hate crimes.
Randolph was a controversial figure in terms of his religious beliefs and views as they varied over his lifetime. Being a communist, he was shunned not only by the religious
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We only get to see the final product but, we do not know the foundation or how it all started. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are known as the parents of the civil rights movement. These civil rights activists could not have done it without A. Philip Randolph.
Philip Randolph was one of the most respected leaders of the American Civil Rights movement. Randolph was a labor activist; organizer of the 1941 March on Washington which resulted in the establishment of the (FEPC), and architect of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
He fought for economic equality during the 1930s by serving as president of the National Negro Congress, to institute policies designed to treat African Americans fairly in the workplace and to protect their civil rights.
Randolph co-founded the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to coordinate the legislative activities of a number of organizations working against racial discrimination.
Philip Randolph was the son of two committed supporters of equal rights for African American and general human