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He was called the most

 DANGEROUS

 Blackman

 In America 

Was a prominent twentieth-century African

American civil rights leader and the founder

    of both the March on

       Washington Movement.

   .  

Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, was born in Florida.  After high school, he went to
New York City and studied at City College.  He was active in the Socialist party, and
in 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.  From that position of
power he was influential in the formation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee.
During these New Deal years, he threatened a march on Washington by a hundred
thousand African Americans, to protest discrimination in the defense industries.  He
opposed discrimination also in the armed forces, and in 1955 he became a member of
the AFL-CIO executive council.  Two years later he was a vice president and in regular
opposition to George Meany, the union leader who was lukewarm on civil rights in
the unions.  It was during this active period that he was called the "most dangerous
Negro in America" by those who feared his power.  He was an organizer of the August
1963 march on Washington, sharing leadership responsibilities with Roy Wilkins,
Whitney Young, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and James Farmer.  In
later years his socialism became more moderate and he became active in the Urban
League and the Liberal party.  To carry out his commitment to his causes, he founded
the A. Philip Randolph Institute, symbolizing the power of the African American
worker.  He died in 1979, recognized for his many solid contributions to the Civil Rights
Movement.

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