White-Washed Out of History: Reviving the Legacy of Black Radical Trade Unionists to Educate, Agitate, & Organize for Power Workers Movements Today with William P. Jones, is prof. of history at the University of Minnesota, president of the Labor and Working Class History Association and author of the award-winning The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. Jones discusses Black radical labor organizations and the great trade unionist A. Philip Randolph, who first called for a march on Washington in 1941 to press for equal opportunity in employment.. Randolph would call for an end to segregation and a living wage for every American. His vision of equality in race matters was inextricably linked with the shaping an economic system where Black workers and white workers would reap the fruits of their labors. His economic and civil rights demands stimulated a movement of sustained grassroots organizing, linked locally to women's groups, unions, and faith-based organizations across the country and broaden the civil rights movement it propelled
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