At 22 years old, the man who would become the "founding father" of America’s civil rights movement, gave up on Jacksonville. Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the youngest of two boys born in ...

Editor's note: This story was first published on jacksonville.com on Aug. 24, 2013. As time passes, history often simplifies or even distorts events. Christopher Columbus did sail the ocean blue, but ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — More than 40 million people travel through Washington, DC’s Union Station every year, but very few stop and stare at the monument of a civil rights icon who watches over the ...

Throughout February, we’ll be highlighting historical African American figures who’ve had an impact in their fields, whether that be art, music, politics or sports. All of them have a Florida ...

In 1963, labor leader Asa Philip Randolph and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin began to plan the March on Washington. The event was to take place on Aug. 28 and would advocate the civil and ...

Asa Philip Randolph, the first great Black union leader in America, founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the organization to secure better wages and working conditions for Black ...

That doughty old warrior of Negro labor rights, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, took the rostrum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of ...

Good morning, class. Welcome to this session of African-American History and U.S. Labor Relations 101. Let's begin today with a pop quiz. Who can tell us about A. Philip Randolph? Who was he and what ...