Reframing Randolph
Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America's multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation fornearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, theassaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencingof labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten amonglarge segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large. Historians, however, have not…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-2447-7
- EAN: 9780814724477
- Produktnummer: 22583062
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'745 KB
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