A(sa) Philip Randolph

Randolph, A(sa) Philip (1889–1979), U.S. African-American labor and civil rights leader. He organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925), then an all-black union, and served as its president until 1968. His influence was instrumental in the setting up of the Fair Employment Practices Committee in 1941. He became a vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1955. In 1963 he directed the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

See also: Labor movement; Civil rights.