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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kersten, Andrew Edmund, 1969- A. Philip Randolph. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007 (OCoLC)680799447 |
| Named Person: | A Philip Randolph; Asa P Randolph; Asa Philip Randolph |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Edmund Kersten |
| ISBN: | 074254897X 9780742548978 0742548988 9780742548985 |
| OCLC Number: | 70830937 |
| Description: | xiii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | From preacher son to socialist radical : Randolph's formative years in Florida and New York City -- A union revolution : the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- When Negroes don't march : A. Philip Randolph and the power of protest politics during World War II -- Unfinished business : Randolph's civil rights struggles during the Cold War -- The 1963 March on Washington : Randolph's finest hour. |
| Series Title: | African American history series (Lanham, Md.) |
| Responsibility: | Andrew E. Kersten. |
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Andrew Kersten's A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard accomplishes its goals to an exceptional degree. In clear, often eloquent, prose Kersten relates the essentials of Randolph's life and achievements. Kersten's sympathetic, but not uncritical, portrait is grounded in the extensive primary sources and recent scholarly studies without being overwhelmed by them. For the interested general reader and the discerning undergraduate, Kersten's Randolph should be the biography of choice. -- John H. Bracey Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst This very fine biography of A. Philip Randolph reminds us that the roots of the 20th century civil rights movement are found as much in the urban North as in the rural South. Andrew Kersten never lets us forget that Randolph proved such a successful tribune because he faithfully advanced the aspirations of a restless, multiracial working class, within the world of Pullman service and without. -- Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara Read more...
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- Randolph, A. Philip -- (Asa Philip), -- 1889-1979.
- African Americans -- Biography.
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
- Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Randolph, Asa P.
- Randolph, Asa Philip.
