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A. Philip Randolph, Labor's Grand Old Man
Author | : Phyl Garland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Civil rights workers |
ISBN | : |
A. Philip Randolph
Author | : Cynthia Taylor |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0814782876 |
Scholarship has portrayed A. Philip Randolph, an African American trade unionist as an atheist and anti-religious. Taylor places him within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion.
A. Philip Randolph
Author | : Jervis Anderson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520055055 |
'Anderson...details with rare journalistic insight Randolph's meteoric rise from a young radical and street orator in Harlem to the most sought-after black in the labor movement...' -Malcolm Poindexter, The Philadelphia Bulletin
Labor Leaders in America
Author | : Melvyn Dubofsky |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252013430 |
Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.
Reframing Randolph
Author | : Andrew E. Kersten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814764649 |
At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment of America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencing of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten among large segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large. Historians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but his role (either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social, political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph’s dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the very first time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established and emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography and blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse ways that historians have approached the importance of his long and complex career in the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-century African American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of Reframing Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.
Servants of the People
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349614580 |
Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Rising from the Rails
Author | : Larry Tye |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780805078503 |
"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."--Newsday When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African Americans in the country by the 1920s. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. - Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times
The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus
Author | : David Burns |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199929505 |
This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Servants of the People
Author | : L. Williams |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137066350 |
This revised and expanded edition traces the lives of key American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause, including A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker.