A. Philip Randolph papers
Contributors: A. Philip Randolph Institute
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13000
Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Messenger; Discrimination in employment; Negro American Labor Council; United States. Fair Employment Practices Committee; Correspondence; Race relations; March on Washington Movement; Civil rights; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; African Americans; Race discrimination; Politics and government; White House Conference: "To Fulfill These Rights" (1966 : Washington, D.C.); African American labor union members; United States; Youth March for Integrated Schools (1958 : Washington, D.C.); Socialism; Domestic Economic assistance; Armed Forces; Pan-Africanism; Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957 : Washington, D.C.); National Educational Committee for a New Party; Civil rights demonstrations; Social conditions; Economic conditions
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, family papers, biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Randolph and his work as a civil rights leader and an African-American union official.  Documents his strategy for securing political, social, and economic rights for African-Americans.  Subjects include the A. Philip Randolph Institute's "Freedom Budget," the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, civil rights movement and demonstrations, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, March on Washington Movement, the Messenger, military discrimination, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Educational Committee for a New Party, Negro American Labor Council, Pan-Africanism, the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 17, 1957, in Washington, D.C., socialism, the White House Conference To Fulfill These Rights, 1966, and the Youth March for Integrated Schools, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25, 1958.

Correspondents include Hazel Alves, Theodore E. Brown, Charles Wesley Burton, Roberta Church, Thurman L. Dodson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lester B. Granger, William Green, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maida Springer Kemp, John F, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rayford Whittingham Logan, Emanuel Muravchik, Philip Murray, Chandler Owen, Cleveland H. Reeves, Walter Reuther, Grant Reynolds, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Wyatt Tee Walker, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, and Aubrey Willis Williams.
Notes: Microfilm edition of selections available, no. 20,562; cataloged in record 91011920.

Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Bequest, A. Philip Randolph via the A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1983.

Gift, A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1983.

Purchase, 1984.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Civil rights leader and labor union official.  Died 1979.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005004