Editor's note: This story was first published on jacksonville.com on Aug. 24, 2013. As time passes, history often simplifies or even distorts events. Christopher Columbus did sail the ocean blue, but ...

At 22 years old, the man who would become the "founding father" of America’s civil rights movement, gave up on Jacksonville. Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the youngest of two boys born in ...

Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American-led labor ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — More than 40 million people travel through Washington, DC’s Union Station every year, but very few stop and stare at the monument of a civil rights icon who watches over the ...

Asa Philip Randolph, the first great Black union leader in America, founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the organization to secure better wages and working conditions for Black ...

That doughty old warrior of Negro labor rights, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, took the rostrum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of ...

A. Philip Randolph was working on becoming an accomplished Shakespearean actor when he was moved instead to fight for workers' rights early in the... Saluting A. Philip Randolph, Workers' Champion ...

For someone looking for original material about Jacksonville’s history, it was like stumbling upon a treasure, not exactly buried, but kept in the archives of a New York university: the transcript ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio In the November 1942 issue of Survey Graphic magazine, Asa Philip Randolph ...

Visiting with President Eisenhower for 45 minutes one day last week were four top U.S. Negro leaders: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, A ...