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Black History Month Labor Profiles: A. Philip Randolph
… During Black History Month, we will be profiling past and present leaders in the intersecting movements to protect and expand the rights of African Americans and working families. We'll highlight both important leaders of the … labor union, and served as the organization's first president. For the next 10 years, Randolph led an arduous campaign to organize the Pullman porters, which resulted in the certification of the BSCP as the exclusive collective bargaining agent … porters in 1935. Randolph called it the "first victory of Negro workers over a great industrial corporation." Click here to learn more about the battle to organize the sleeping car porters. In the 1940s, Randolph was instrumental in leading the …