Title
The Crisis
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.
Date
November 1937
Subject
Volume 44, number 11, whole number 232
Description
A. Phillip Randolph was the most politically effective African American in America in the twentieth century. He began as editor of The Messenger, begun in November 1917 as Hotel Messenger, which billed itself as “the only radical Negro Magazine in America,” providing unflinching support of socialism and the “New Negro” brand of radical journalism. In 1925, he organized the first predominantly African-American labor union, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.