PHILLIP RANDOLPH 1890-1979
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- PHILLIP RANDOLPH 1890-1979
- BELIEFS
- He was an active union organiser for African American workers.
- These key tactics derived from resistance of British Rule in India under Mohandas Gandhi.
- SUCCESSES
- He pressured Roosevelt to end discrimination in the war industries in 1941 by threatening a mass march on Washington.
- Mass March in Washington in 1961 was organised by Randolph and dominated by King.
- An estimated 250,000 people attended and Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black.
- Used economic power of organised labour.
- Put pressure on Truuman to end segregation in armed forces in 1948.
- The use of marches, demonstrations and effective organisations, working with white sympathisers and putting pressure on administrations paid off in the long run.
- FAILURES
- His aims were not specific enough to be achievable.
- BELIEFS
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