THE GEORGE MEANY MEMORIAL ARCHIVES

Labor and Civil Rights: Two Movements, One Goal?

Activity: Protest for Social Change


Click Here for a Larger Version March on Washington Movement Flyer, ca. 1941.

A. Philip Randolph formed the March on Washington Committee to urge 10,000 blacks to "march on Washington for jobs in national defense and equal integration in the fighting forces."

Photograph courtesy: A. Philip Randolph Institute.


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