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Reframing Randolph - Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Hardcover)
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Reframing Randolph - Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Hardcover)
Series: Culture, Labor, History
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At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name.
As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
(BSCP), he was an embodiment of America's multifaceted radical
tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent
symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half
a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the
assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the
overall silencing of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he
has been largely forgotten among large segments of the general
public before whom he once loomed so large. Historians, however,
have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but his role
(either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social,
political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. The
authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph's dusty portrait
down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars
to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. This collection
of essays gathers, for the very first time, many genres of
perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established and emergent
intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography
and blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the
diverse ways that historians have approached the importance of his
long and complex career in the main political, social, and cultural
currents of twentieth-century African American specifically, and
twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of
Reframing Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and
critical reappraisal.
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