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Reframing Randolph : labor, black freedom, and the legacies of A. Philip Randolph /
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 r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Culture, labor, history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. The editors of Refraining Randolph have taken Randolphs dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. 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 history specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of Refraining Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814724477 0814724477 0814764649 9780814764640 |