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A Philip Randolph Dies Civil Rights Leader at 90
A Philip Randolph, elder statesman of civil rights and head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, died at about 3 30 p.m. in his Manhattan apartment. Born April 15 1889 in Crescent City Florida Randolph helped found the first major black labor union and fought for desegregation and workers rights for decades. His death comes one day before the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that school segregation was unconstitutional.
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