Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material A. Philip Randolph papers,

Title

• A. Philip Randolph papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, family papers, biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Randolph and his work as a civil rights leader and an African-American union official. Documents his strategy for securing political, social, and economic rights for African-Americans. Subjects include the A. Philip Randolph Institute's "Freedom Budget," the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, civil rights movement and demonstrations, the Committee on Fair Employment Practices, March on Washington Movement, the Messenger, military discrimination, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Educational Committee for a New Party, Negro American Labor Council, Pan-Africanism, the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 17, 1957, in Washington, D.C., socialism, the White House Conference To Fulfill These Rights, 1966, and the Youth March for Integrated Schools, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25, 1958.
• Correspondents include Hazel Alves, Theodore E. Brown, Charles Wesley Burton, Roberta Church, Thurman L. Dodson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lester B. Granger, William Green, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maida Springer Kemp, John F, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rayford Whittingham Logan, Emanuel Muravchik, Philip Murray, Chandler Owen, Cleveland H. Reeves, Walter Reuther, Grant Reynolds, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Wyatt Tee Walker, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, and Aubrey Willis Williams.

Names

• Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
• A. Philip Randolph Institute

Headings

• -  Alves, Hazel--Correspondence
• -  Brown, Theodore E.--Correspondence
• -  Burton, Charles Wesley,--1887---Correspondence
• -  Church, Roberta--Correspondence
• -  Dodson, Thurman L.--Correspondence
• -  Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Correspondence
• -  Granger, Lester B.--(Lester Blackwell),--1896-1976--Correspondence
• -  Green, William,--1870-1952--Correspondence
• -  Hedgeman, Anna Arnold,--1899-1990--Correspondence
• -  Hoffman, Anna Rosenberg,--1902-1983--Correspondence
• -  Humphrey, Hubert H.--(Hubert Horatio),--1911-1978--Correspondence
• -  Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973--Correspondence
• -  Springer, Maida--Correspondence
• -  Kennedy, John F.--(John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963--Correspondence
• -  King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968--Correspondence
• -  Logan, Rayford Whittingham,--1897-1982--Correspondence
• -  Muravchik, Emanuel--Correspondence
• -  Murray, Philip,--1886-1952--Correspondence
• -  Owen, Chandler,--1889-1967--Correspondence
• -  Reeves, Cleveland H.--Correspondence
• -  Reuther, Walter,--1907-1970--Correspondence
• -  Reynolds, Grant--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Correspondence
• -  Thomas, Norman,--1884-1968--Correspondence
• -  Truman, Harry S.,--1884-1972--Correspondence
• -  Walker, Wyatt Tee--Correspondence
• -  White, Walter,--1893-1955--Correspondence
• -  Wilkins, Roy,--1901-1981--Correspondence
• -  Williams, Aubrey Willis,--1890-1965--Correspondence
• -  Randolph family
• -  United States.--Committee on Fair Employment Practice
• -  Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• -  March on Washington Movement (Organization)
• -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• -  National Educational Committee for a New Party
• -  Negro American Labor Council
• -  Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom--(1957 :--Washington, D.C.)
• -  White House Conference: "To Fulfill These Rights"--(1966 :--Washington, D.C.)
• -  Youth March for Integrated Schools--(1958 :--Washington, D.C.)
• -  Messenger
• -  African American labor union members
• -  African Americans--Civil rights
• -  African Americans--Economic conditions
• -  African Americans--Politics and government
• -  African Americans--Social conditions
• -  Civil rights--United States
• -  Civil rights demonstrations--United States
• -  Discrimination in employment--United States
• -  Economic assistance, Domestic--United States
• -  Pan-Africanism
• -  Race discrimination--United States
• -  Socialism
• -  United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
• -  United States--Race relations

Notes

• -  Arranged in seven series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1942-1963; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1926-1978; Series 3: Subject File, 1909-1978; Series 4: Speeches and Writings File, 1917-1978; Series 5: Biographical File, 1945-1979; Series 6: Miscellany, 1920-1979; and Series 7: Oversize, 1920-1946.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, A. Philip Randolph Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  A. Philip Randolph papers, apart from a portion of the Miscellany series, available onsite at the Library of Congress or offsite with a subscription to ProQuest through the ProQuest History Vault website at https://www.proquest.com/hvcivilrights/archivecollection/3064693173?accountid=12084&sourcetype=Archival%20Materials External
• -  Why Should We March?; flyer, ca. 1941, available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005004.001
• -  Microfilm edition, apart from a portion of the Miscellany series, available, no. 20,562.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1990.
• -  Bequest, A. Philip Randolph via the A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1983.
• -  Gift, A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1983.
• -  Purchase, 1984.
• -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Related collection: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters records. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
• -  Civil rights leader and labor union official. Died 1979.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005004

Medium

• 13,000 items.
• 56 containers plus 4 oversize.
• 35 microfilm reels.
• 23.8 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm83049775

Access Advisory

• Open to research.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm83049775

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• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record