A. Philip Randolph

(noun)

A prominent leader in the African American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. He was the founding president of the Brothers of Sleeping Car Porters. 

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Examples of A. Philip Randolph in the following topics:

  • Minorities and the New Deal

    • Under the leadership of A.
    • 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.
    • Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A.
    • 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.
    • Fox, Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers, Staff Sergeant Edward A.

  • 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.

  • The Rise of the Macedon

    • Macedon rose from a small kingdom on the periphery of classical Greek affairs, to a dominant player in the Hellenic world and beyond, within the span of 25 years between 359 and 336 BCE.
    • While Philip was young, he was held hostage in Thebes, and received a military and diplomatic education from Epaminondas.
    • Although there were no open hostilities between the Athenians and Macedonians at the time, tensions had arisen as a result of Philip’s recent land and resource acquisitions.
    • For many Macedonian rulers, the Achaemenid Empire in Persia was a major sociopolitical influence, and Philip II was no exception.
    • For example, Philip established a Royal Secretary and Archive, as well as the institution of Royal Pages, which would mount the king on his horse in a manner very similar to the way in which Persian kings were mounted.

  • Philip II and the Spanish Armada

    • Philip saw himself as a champion of Catholicism, both against the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Protestants.
    • She was a daughter of Philip's maternal uncle, John III of Portugal, and paternal aunt, Catherine of Austria.
    • Whereas his father had been forced to an itinerant rule as a medieval king, Philip ruled at a critical turning point in European history toward modernity.
    • Philip's foreign policies were determined by a combination of Catholic fervor and dynastic objectives.
    • Following the Revolt of the Netherlands in 1568, Philip waged a campaign against Dutch secession.

  • 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

    • When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress .
    • Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting were in attendance at the second, and the delegates appointed the same president, Peyton Randolph, and secretary, Charles Thomson.
    • Henry Middleton was elected as president to replace Randolph, but he declined, and Hancock was elected president on May 24.
    • On July 8, Congress extended the Olive Branch Petition to the British Crown as a final attempt at reconciliation.
    • Silas Deane was sent to France as a minister (ambassador) of the Congress.

  • Late Classical Period

    • Slowly at first, artists began to examine new ways of representing the body and telling stories in a single work.
    • Sparta declined to a second-rank power; however Theban rule was short-lived.
    • The weakened state of the heartland of Greece coincided with the Rise of Macedon, led by Philip II.
    • Alexander, son and successor of Philip, continued the war.
    • Roman marble copy signed by Glykon of Athens, of a Greek bronze original c. 320 BCE.