Profile: Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. Continue reading Profile: Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
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Profile: Roy Wilkins (1901-1981)
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Continue reading Profile: Roy Wilkins (1901-1981)
Profile: Whitney Young (1921-1971)
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. Continue reading Profile: Whitney Young (1921-1971)
Profile: William Edouard Scott (1884–1964)
William Edouard Scott was an African-American artist. Even before Alain Locke asked African Americans to create and portray the New Negro that would thrust them into the future, artists like William Edouard Scott were depicting blacks in new ways to break away from the subjugating images of the past. Continue reading Profile: William Edouard Scott (1884–1964)
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