A. Philip Randolph: "Call to Negro America to March on Washington" - Milestone Documents

A. Philip Randolph: “Call to Negro America to March on Washington”

( 1941 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Barnhill, J. Herschel. “Civil Rights in the 1940s.” Negro History Bulletin 45, no. 1 (January–March 1982): 21–22.

Books

  • Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Garfinkel, Herbert. When Negroes March: The March on Washington Movement in the Organizational Politics for FEPC. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
  • Harris, William H. The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
  • Kersten, Andrew E. A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
  • Miller, Calvin Craig. A. Philip Randolph and the African American Labor Movement. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds, 2005.
  • Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
  • Sternsher, Bernard, ed. The Negro in Depression and War: Prelude to Revolution, 1930–1945. Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle Books, 1969.
  • Taylor, Cynthia. A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
  • Wolters, Raymond. Negroes and the Great Depression: The Problem of Economic Recovery. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.
  • Wright, Sarah E. A. Philip Randolph: Integration in the Workplace. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Web Sites

  • Chenoweth, Karin. “Taking Jim Crow Out of Uniform: A. Philip Randolph and the Desegregation of the U.S. Military: Special Report: The Integrated Military—50 Years.” Black Issues in Higher Education Web site. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_n13_v14/ai_20031732.
  • “Executive Order 8802.” TeachingAmericanHistory.org. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=547.
  • Randolph, A. Philip. “‘The March on Washington Movement’: Address to the Policy Conference of the March on Washington Movement, Detroit, Michigan, September 26, 1942.” University of Maryland Web site. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/aasp/chateauvert/mowmcall.htm.
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