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Title Reframing Randolph : labor, black freedom, and the legacies of A. Philip Randolph / edited by Andrew E. Kersten and Clarence Lang
Published New York : New York University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
Series Culture, labor, history series
Culture, labor, history.
Contents "Foreword / Arlene Holt Baker -- A reintroduction to Asa Philip Randolph / Andrew E. Kersten and Clarence Lang -- Researching Randolph: Shifting historiographic perspectives / Joe William Trotter, Jr. -- A. Philip Randolph: emerging socialist radical / Eric Arnesen -- Keeping his faith: A. Philip Randolph's working-class religion / Cynthia Taylor -- Brotherhood men and singing Slackers: A. Philip Randolph's rhetoric of music and manhood / Robert Hawkins -- The spirit and strategy of the United Front: Randolph and the National Negro Congress, 1936-1940 / Erik S. Gellman -- Organizing gender: A. Philip Randolph and women activists / Melinda Chateauvert -- Beyond A. Philip Randolph: Grassroots protest and the March on Washington Movement / David Lucander -- The "Void at the Center of the Story": The Negro American Labor Council and the long civil rights movement / William P. Jones -- No exit: A. Philip Randolph and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis / Jerald Podair
Summary 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. The editors of Refraining Randolph have taken Randolphs dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. 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 history specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of Refraining Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal. -- Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 -- Influence
SUBJECT Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 fast
Subject African Americans -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
African American labor leaders -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
African American labor leaders
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights workers
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and Government.
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kersten, Andrew Edmund, 1969- editor.
Lang, Clarence, editor.
LC no. 2014024576
ISBN 9780814724477
0814724477
0814764649
9780814764640
Other Titles Labor, black freedom, and the legacies of A. Philip Randolph