Andrew E. Kersten

A. Philip Randolph

A Life in the Vanguard

Buch

Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow era, Randolph was by his thirtieth birthday a prime mover in the movement to expand civil, social, and economic rights in America. A Socialist and a radical, Randolph devoted his life to energizing the black masses into collective action. He successfully organized the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the March on Washington M… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7425-4897-8
EAN: 9780742548978
Produktnummer: 2537211
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.4 cm 448 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 448

Über den Autor

Andrew E. Kersten is associate professor of history and the chair of social change & development at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-1946, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II, and numerous articles.