What We Support Today

  • Civil rights, strong anti-discrimination measures and affirmative action
  • Policies to promote a decent wage, high growth, full employment economy
  • Labor law reform and worker health and safety protections
  • Decent minimum living standards for all, including anti-poverty programs, a fair minimum wage and a comprehensive "safety net"
  • Universal, affordable health care
  • Family leave and child care
  • Progressive and fair tax policies
  • International workers' rights and fair trade Education and training programs
  • Education and training programs

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History of APRI

A. Philip Randolph 1889-1979

Asa Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida, on 15th April, 1889. The son of a Methodist minister, he was educated locally before moving to New York where he studied economics and philosophy at the City College.

While in New York he worked as an elevator operator, a porter and a waiter. In 1917 Randolph founded a magazine, The Messenger (later the Black Worker), which campaigned for black civil rights. During the First World War he was arrested for breaking the Espionage Act. It was claimed that Randolph and his co-editor, Chandler Owen was guilty of treason after opposing African Americans joining the army.

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After the war, Randolph lectured at the Rand School of Social Science. A member of the Socialist Party, Randolph made several unsuccessful attempts to be elected to political office in New York. He was was involved in organizing black workers in laundries, clothes factories and cinemas and in 1929 became president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). Over the next few years he built it into the first successful black trade union.

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Mission of APRI OHIO

The mission of the APRI is to continue to fight for Human Equality and Economic Justice, and to seek structural changes through the American democratic process. Our members are involved in voter registration, political and community education, lobbying, legislative action and labor support activities.

As a Trade Unionist, support of Labor Constituency Organizations is vital to our members and our community.

André Washington
Wayne L
Blanchard
Delores Freeman
W. Dean Hudson
Linda L Hinton
President
Vice President
Recording Secretary
Treasurer
Education Coordinator

A. Philip Randolph Exhibits

A. Philip Randolph On-line Exhibit

A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum

A. Philip Randolph

Biographical Notes

He is A. Philip Randolph, president of the institute bearing his name and President Emeritus of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the union he built.

  • He was called the most dangerous black in America.M
  • He led 250,000 people in the historic 1963 March on Washington.
  • He spoke for all the dispossessed: Blacks, poor Whites, Puerto Ricans, Indians and Mexican Americans.
  • He attained for Black workers their rightful at in the house of Labor.
  • He won the fight to ban discrimination in the armed forces.
  • He organized the 1957-prayer pilgrimage for the civil rights bill.