Philip Randolph

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Janka Varnai

Cards (5)

  • Integrationist
    Organised unions for AA workers
  • Pressured FDR to end discrimination in war industries, threatening a mass march on Washington
  • Harnessed the economic power of black workers through non violent mass demonstrations
  • His tactics inspired by Gandhi proved to be effective and were acceptable to white sympathisers
  • Played a role in convincing Truman to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948