PHILLIP RANDOLPH
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- PHILLIP RANDOLPH
- EARLY CAREER
- Began his career as a member of the socialist party.
- He was familiar with the concept of the Industrial Workers of the World.
- Began his career as a member of the socialist party.
- BELIEFS
- Developed two notions:
- The idea that people could only be free if they were not economically deprived,
- The importance of collective action if African Americans were to gain equality.
- Developed two notions:
- UNION ACTIVITY
- 1917: organised his first union
- 1919 became president of the National Brotherhood of Workers of America
- 1925 became the president of the BSCP (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters)
- 1955 became vice president of merged American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organisations (AFL-CIO)
- EARLY CAREER
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