Reframing Randolph : : Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph / / Clarence Lang, Andrew E. Kersten.

• VerfasserIn: Kersten, Andrew E.,; Lang, Clarence,
• MitwirkendeR: Arnesen, Eric,; Chateauvert, Melinda,; Gellman, Erik S.,; Hawkins, Robert,; Holt Baker, Arlene,; Jones, William P.,; Kersten, Andrew E.,; Lang, Clarence,; Lucander, David,; Podair, Jerald,; Taylor, Cynthia,; Trotter, Joe William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Culture, Labor, History ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation fornearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, theassaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencingof labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten amonglarge segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large.Historians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, buthis 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 fromthe wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new,and often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the veryfirst time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both establishedand emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiographyand blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse waysthat historians have approached the importance of his long and complex careerin the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-centuryAfrican American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. Thecentral goal of Reframing Randolph isto achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 A Reintroduction to Asa Philip Randolph -- 2 Researching Randolph: Shifting Historiographic Perspectives -- 3 A. Philip Randolph: Emerging Socialist Radical -- 4 Keeping His Faith: A. Philip Randolph’s Working-Class Religion -- 5 Brotherhood Men and Singing Slackers: A. Philip Randolph’s Rhetoric of Music and Manhood -- 6 “The Spirit and Strategy of the United Front”: Randolph and the National Negro Congress, 1936–1940 -- 7 Organizing Gender: A. Philip Randolph and Women Activists -- 8 Beyond A. Philip Randolph: Grassroots Protest and the March on Washington Movement -- 9 The “Void at the Center of the Story”: The Negro American Labor Council and the Long Civil Rights Movement -- 10 No Exit: A. Philip Randolph and the Ocean Hill–Brownsville Crisis -- Select Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index