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Randolph as One of Early Equal Rights Leaders
Editor notes highlight Asa Philip Randolph as a pioneering Negro leader linked to Negro History Week. Born in Crescent City Florida April 15 1889 he rose from grocery clerk and elevator operator to editor organizer and union founder. He built the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters driving wage gains and broader civil rights impact.
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Frederick
NAACP
Negro History Week
Asa Phillip Randolph
Amle
Cresent City
Florida
Cookman Institute
Jacksonville
New York City
Consolidated Edison Co
Fall River
City College of New York
Randolph
Chandler Owen
Messenger
America
Cleveland
Justice Department
Graphic
Opportunity
Rand School
New York
Fall River Line
Pullman Car
Harlem
the Messenger
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Pullman Company
Brotherhood
Board of Mediation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Court
Impellitteri
the Brotherhood
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters