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 ...

Born in Crescent City, Fla., Asa Philip Randolph came into the world on April 15, 1889 to James William Randolph and Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. Together, the tailor and the seamstress laid a firm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sollie Mitchell was born in Ocilla, Ga., on June 20, 1918, while a war that would become known as World War I still raged in Europe. After growing up in Jacksonville, he served in the Pacific during ...