Contents
Foreword ix
Arlene Holt Baker
1 A Reintroduction to Asa Philip Randolph 1
Andrew E. Kersten and Clarence Lang
2 Researching Randolph: Shifting Historiographic Perspectives 21
Joe William Trotter, Jr.
3 A. Philip Randolph: Emerging Socialist Radical 45
Eric Arnesen
4 Keeping His Faith: A. Philip Randolph’s Working-Class Religion 77
Cynthia Taylor
5 Brotherhood Men and Singing Slackers: A. Philip Randolph’s Rhetoric of Music and Manhood 101
Robert Hawkins
6 “The Spirit and Strategy of the United Front”: Randolph and the National Negro Congress, 1936–1940 129
Erik S. Gellman
7 Organizing Gender: A. Philip Randolph and Women Activists 163
Melinda Chateauvert
8 Beyond A. Philip Randolph: Grassroots Protest and the March on Washington Movement 195
David Lucander
9 The “Void at the Center of the Story”: The Negro American Labor Council and the Long Civil Rights Movement 223
William P. Jones
10 No Exit: A. Philip Randolph and the Ocean Hill–Brownsville Crisis 245
Jerald Podair
Select Bibliography 271
About the Contributors 275
Index 279