A. Philip Randolph

Examples of A. Philip Randolph in the following topics:

• Minorities and the New Deal

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  • Philip Randolph, one of the era's most prominent civil rights activist and the founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a group of civil rights leaders that included Bayard Rustin, Walter White, and A.
  • Since laws differ from state to state, a law school located in another state could not prepare a future attorney for a career in Maryland.
  • The circuit court judge ordered Raymond A.
  • Philip Randolph was a prominent civil rights activist who helped push Roosevelt into signing Executive Order 8822.

• A New Direction for Unions

  • Around the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took over the presidential office in 1933, union membership recorded a decrease from over 3 million in 1932 to around 2.7 million a year later.
  • It established a national minimum wage and overtime standards.
  • Historians have extensively discussed the racist stand of the AFL (A.
  • Philip Randolph and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters gathering black workers constitute an exception in the AFL membership).
  • However, every year a number of workers broke the no-protest promise.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The 1950s and the 1960s witnessed a dramatic development of the Civil Rights Movement that at the time accomplished a series of its goals through the acts of civil disobedience, legal battles, and promoting the notion of Black Power.
  • These sit-ins led to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. 
  • This group followed the ideology of Malcolm X, a former member of the Nation of Islam, using a "by-any-means necessary" approach to stopping inequality.
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  • Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther.

• African Americans in WWII

  • Prior to the German offensive, the 106th division was tasked with holding a 26-mile (41.8 kilometers) long length of the front.
  • In 1947, A.
  • Philip Randolph, prominent civil rights leader, along with colleague Grant Reynolds, renewed efforts to end discrimination in the armed services, forming the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, later renamed the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation.
  • A 1993 study commissioned by the United States Army investigated racial discrimination in the awarding of medals.
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• The Role of Religion in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the overall presence of religious values that shaped the Civil Rights Movement marked also the 1963 march.
  • King sent a "Letter from the St.
  • This resulted, a week later, in the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history—while conducting a pray-in at the Monson.
  • A religious tone was present in Klan's activities from the beginning.
  • Religion was a major selling point for the organization.

• John Randolph and the Old Republicans

  • Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke was the leader of the "Old Republican" faction of Democratic-Republicans that insisted on a strict adherence to the Constitution and opposed any innovations.
  • John Randolph was a planter and a congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also as minister to Russia throughout his career.
  • Randolph was committed to republicanism and advocated for a commercial agrarian society throughout his three decades in Congress.
  • Randolph appealed directly to yeomen farmers, using entertaining and enlightening oratory, sociability, and a community of interest—particularly in agriculture—that led to an enduring voter attachment to him, regardless of his personal deficiencies.
  • Randolph made no effort to build a third party at the federal level.

• King Philip's War

  • King Philip's allies began to desert him.
  • The war ultimately cost the New England Confederation and its colonists over £100,000—a significant amount of money at a time when most families earned less than £20 per year.
  • In a just over a year, twelve of the region's towns were destroyed and many more damaged.
  • Before King Philip's War, they had mostly been ignored as uninteresting and poor English outposts.
  • King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.

• The Second Continental Congress

  • The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War.
  • The delegates reappointed former Continental Congress president, Peyton Randolph; and secretary, Charles Thomson, to reprise their roles at the Second Congress.
  • Randolph was soon called away by other duties and succeeded by John Hancock as president.
  • On July 6, 1775, Congress approved a Declaration of Causes outlining the rationale and necessity for taking up arms in the 13 colonies.
  • On July 8, Congress extended the Olive Branch Petition to the British Crown as a final, unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation.

• Calls for a Stronger Constitution

  • James Madison and Edmund Randolph were also appointed as Virginia delegates but Virginia Governor Patrick Henry failed to inform them in time, so they were unable to attend.
  • The conference was largely a success and essentially created a model for interstate cooperation.
  • A report was prepared for the two state legislatures in March 1785, containing 13 proposals known as the Mount Vernon Compact.
  • The conference was significant as a model of interstate cooperation outside of the framework of the relatively weak Articles of Confederation.
  • On January 21, 1786, following the Mount Vernon Conference, Virginia invited all states to attend a meeting on commercial issues.

• The Holdouts: Virginia and New York

  • It is likely that these editions were primarily used as a "debater's handbook" rather than as a strong persuasive piece in support of the Federalists' cause, though the distinction is a small one.
  • Probably of greater importance to the Virginia debate, in any case, was George Washington's support of the proposed Constitution and the presence of Madison and Edmund Randolph, the governor, at the convention, all arguing in favor of ratification.
  • A major issue during the Virginia Ratification Convention was the question of individual rights.
  • George Mason argued for the addition of a bill of rights, among other modifications.
  • James Madison, elected to Congress from his home district, was a floor leader in the first session of the First Congress.