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 agi...

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