Today’s Labor Quote: A. Philip Randolph

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”

Labor leader and peace activist A. Philip Randolph died on this date in 1979. Randolph was president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black leader on the AFL-CIO executive board, and a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

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