Bayard Rustin
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1 day ago · A. Philip Randolph Jan 8, 2024. ... Photos of the protestors helped galvanize civil rights supporters nationally. In 1964, Robinson became the first Black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, and ...
4 days ago · Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. [1] Rustin worked in 1941 with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement to press for an end to racial discrimination in the military and defense employment.
1 day ago · A. Philip Randolph had planned a march on Washington, D.C., in 1941 to support demands for elimination of employment discrimination in the defense industry; he called off the march when the Roosevelt administration met the demand by issuing Executive Order 8802, which barred racial discrimination and created an agency to oversee compliance with ...
21 hours ago · african-americans at the time. a philip randolph was the head of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters porters. so he knows to organize. and that's important. these individuals important because they work with the trains. and if they stop as the country mobilizing to war, then all of those soldiers and everybody who are trying to enroll and ...
1 day ago · Top 30 Quotes by A. Philip Randolph. “Freedom is never given; it is won.”. “Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political, and religious relationship.”.
1 day ago · A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin began planning the march in December 1961. They envisioned two days of protest, including sit-ins and lobbying followed by a mass rally at the Lincoln Memorial. They wanted to focus on joblessness and to call for a public works program that would employ black people.
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1 day ago · Jenn Ryan pins the rank of major general on her husband, Maj. Gen. Philip Ryan, commander of U.S. Army South, during his promotion ceremony on Aug. 5, 2024, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Jen and Philip met at the beginning of their careers as Army officers. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Taeckens)
