April 15th is Asa Philip Randolph Day!!! Below are some highlights of who A. Philip Randolph was:
*He led 250,000 people in the historic 1963 March on Washington.
*He spoke for all the dispossessed: Blacks, poor Whites, Puerto Ricans, Indians and Mexican Americans.
*He attained for Black workers their rightful at in the house of Labor.
*He won the fight to ban discrimination in the armed forces.
*He organized the 1957-prayer pilgrimage for the civil rights bill.
*He was President of the Institute, bearing his name, and President Emeritus of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the union he built.
Thank you Mr. Randolph for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Asa Philip Randolph. :-)
http://www.apri.org/ht/d/sp/i/225
"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." - Asa Philip Randolph
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