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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

 Organization

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A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights and Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1530
Overview Papers of Asa Philip Randolph, a prominent civil rights and labor leader, who founded and edited The Messenger, an influential black radical labor newspaper of the 1920s and who organized and presided over the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the only independent, viable black trade union in the American labor movement. Much of the correspondence deals with raising subscriptions for The Messenger, gaining an International...
Dates: 1919-1937