In 1963, labor leader Asa Philip Randolph and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin began to plan the March on Washington. The event was to take place on Aug. 28 and would advocate the civil and ...
Throughout February, we’ll be highlighting historical African American figures who’ve had an impact in their fields, whether that be art, music, politics or sports. All of them have a Florida ...
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — More than 40 million people travel through Union Station in Washington, D.C. every year, but very few stop and stare at the monument of a civil rights icon who watches over the ...
Editor's note: This story was first published on jacksonville.com on Aug. 24, 2013. As time passes, history often simplifies or even distorts events. Christopher Columbus did sail the ocean blue, but ...
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - The city of Meridian has proclaimed February 26 to be Asa Philip Randolph Day, recognizing his ...
Born in Crescent City, Fla., Asa Philip Randolph came into the world on April 15, 1889 to James William Randolph and Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. Together, the tailor and the seamstress laid a firm ...
Asa Philip Randolph, the man who organized the march where Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I Have a Dream” speech, was a proud graduate of what is now Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School of the ...
That doughty old warrior of Negro labor rights, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, took the rostrum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of ...
Sometimes we overlook the influence and role many former residents have played in shaping the society we live in today. Raised in Jacksonville's Eastside, A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) left town in ...