THE GEORGE MEANY MEMORIAL ARCHIVES
A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979
Civil Rights Activist

Click Here for a Larger Version Randolph addresses March on Washington participants, 1963.

Randolph (flanked on his right by March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin) prepares to address the gathering of more than 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Randolph's was the first address at the event and the last major speech of his public life.

Photograph courtesy: George Meany Memorial Archives.

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