- unitid
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{"value"=>"20765", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 232", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11883941x", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1940-1978", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1940/1978"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"A. Philip Randolph collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.83 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"A. Philip Randolph was a civil rights leader and President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The A. Philip Randolph collection consists of speeches, statements, and press releases related to A. Philip Randolph and his work with the labor movement, international and national politics, civil rights, the Brotherhood of Sleeping of Porters, and the Fair Employment Practice Committee."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>A. Philip Randolph was a civil rights leader and President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The son of a Methodist minister, Randolph moved to Harlem, New York, in 1911. He attended City College at night and, with Chandler Owen in 1912, established an employment agency though which he attempted to organize Black workers. In 1917, after the entry of the United States into World War I, the two men founded a magazine, <span class=\"title\">The Messenger</span> (later known as the <span class=\"title\">Black Worker</span>), that called for more positions for Blacks in the war industry and the armed forces. After the war, Randolph lectured at New York's Rand School of Social Science and ran unsuccessfully for offices on the Socialist Party ticket.</p> <p>In 1925, as founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Randolph began organizing that group of Black workers and, at a time when half the affiliates of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) barred Blacks from membership, took his union into the AFL. Despite opposition, he built the first successful Black trade union; the Brotherhood won its first major contract with the Pullman Company in 1937. The following year, Randolph removed his union from the AFL in protest against its failure to fight discrimination in its ranks and took the brotherhood into the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt that he would lead thousands of Blacks in a protest march on Washington, D.C.; Roosevelt, on June 25, 1941, issued Executive Order 8802, barring discrimination in defense industries and federal bureaus and creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). After World War II, Randolph founded the League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation, resulting in the issue by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948, of Executive Order 9981, banning racial segregation in the armed forces.</p> <p>When the AFL merged with the CIO in 1955, Randolph was made a vice president and member of the executive council of the combined organization. He was the first president (1960–66) of the Negro American Labor Council, formed by Randolph and others to fight discrimination within the AFL-CIO.</p> <p>In an echo of his activities of 1941, Randolph was a director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which brought more than 200,000 persons to the capital on August 28, 1963, to demonstrate support for civil rights for Blacks. Two years later, he formed the A. Philip Randolph Institute for community leaders to study the causes of poverty. Suffering chronic illness, he resigned his presidency of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1968 and retired from public life. Randolph died in 1979.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of speeches, statements, and press releases related to A. Philip Randolph and his work with the labor movement, international and national politics, civil rights, the Brotherhood of Sleeping of Porters, the Fair Employment Practice Committee, and other activities as they relate to African Americans. Randolph's personal financial records are included as well. The speeches are duplicates; the originals are at the Library of Congress in the A. Philip Randolph papers.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1985, and Joe Wilson, 1993.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: artifacts.</p> <p>Transferred to the General Research and Reference Division: books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers.</p> <p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere, 1985 and 1993.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Box 3 closed until processed.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Also held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:</p> <p>Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, Sc MG 250</p> <p>(Jessica Davis) Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, Sc MG 426</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_67477eb4c861c4fb7d455ec15f6a189c", "value"=>"<p>Britannica. \"A. Philip Randolph.\" Accessed May 7, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-Philip-Randolph.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 May 7"}
- date_start
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1940
- keydate
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1940
- date_end
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1978
- date_inclusive_start
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1940
- date_inclusive_end
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1978
- extent_statement
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1.83 linear feet (3 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], A. Philip Randolph collection, Sc MG 232, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}