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Eugene Waymon Jones, Asa Phillip Randolph, Mayor Richardson Dilworth, and Judge Raymond Pace Alexander

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Pictured (from Left to Right) are Eugene Waymon Jones, E. Washington Rhodes, Asa Phillip Randolph, Mayor Richardson Dilworth, two unidentified men, and Judge Raymond Pace Alexander. Dilworth was presented with the L’Ouverture Cross and Randolph the Cross of Malta with sapphires at the annual Philadelphia Cotillion Society Ball. Alexander cites honorees for their contributions to human rights, 1960. A 1911 graduate of the Cookman Institute, Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Labor with the intentions of organizing Black workers and "The Messenger", a newsletter intended for influencing employers to hire Black workers at proper labor conditions and terms. In the 1920s on the Socialist Party platform he ran for political office in New York. In 1936 he was drafted as President of the National Negro Congress (NNC). He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) in 1925 and by 1937 won the members of his union official inclusion in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Judge Ra

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Keywords

  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Judges
  4. African American Pioneers
  5. African American Politicians
  6. African Americans
  7. Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898 1974
  8. Civic Leaders
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Dilworth, Richardson, 1898 1974
  11. Jones, Eugene W
  12. Political Activists
  13. Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889 1979
  14. Socialists

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