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Old 10-24-2009, 03:39   #9
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There is another name on that site that is worth reading about...

A. Philip Randolph, A Republican

Randolph not only organized the 1963 march,, that made MLK..

But he also organized a march in 1941, protesting the Democratic administration of Roosevelt.

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A. Philip Randolph

(1889 - 1979)

As a Philip Randolph became one of America’s foremost labor leader and civil rights pioneer. He was born in Crescent City, Florida in 1889. In 1925 he organized and served as the first President of the Black International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Randolph was the first African American to serve as an International Vice-President of the AFL-CIO in 1957, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

He organized two major marches on Washington, D.C. in 1941 and 1963, which resulted in important advances in black civil rights. The 1963 march made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a national figure. About the 1963 March Randolph once said:

"By fighting for their rights now, American Negroes are helping to make America a moral and spiritual arsenal of democracy. Their fight against the poll tax, against lynch law, segregation, and Jim Crow, their fight for economic, political, and social equality, thus becomes part of the global war for freedom.”
99% of the democrats claim to be the salvation of the minorities and the minorities believe them..

In fact,, history shows the opposite..
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