Randolph Rips "Black Power"-- Says It's as "Indefensible as White Supremacy": Civil Rights leader A. Philip Randolph denounced "black power" in an interview here Saturday as "just as indefensible as…white supremacy." Randolph, president of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, speaks Sunday at 4 p.m. to a public meeting in the auditorium of Booker T. Washington High School. The meeting is sponsored by the union's local. Randolph's topic will be "Labor and the Civil Rights Movement".

A. Philip Randolph (1889 – 1979) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union. In the early Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement, Randolph was a voice that would not be silenced. His continuous agitation with the support of fellow labor rights activists against unfair labor practices in relation to people of color eventually led 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. He also inspired the "Freedom Budget", sometimes called the "Randolph Freedom budget", which aimed to deal with the economic problems facing the black community.

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This object has the following keywords:

• A. Philip Randolph
• AFL-CIO
• Black Power
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• Civil Rights Movements
• Denunciations
• Injustice
• Interviews
• Racial Discrimination

• Image Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in. (24.13 x 19.21 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/16 in. (25.4 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen