![]() ![]() "Name an African-American who excelled in any field in the last century - from Los Angeles' Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of a major American city, to Leroy C. Philip Randolph."īy moving into the middle class, porters owned homes and cars and were able to provide college educations for their children, who became lawyers, doctors, politicians, musicians, scientists, Olympians, businessmen, military officers, teachers, writers and artists. Randolph and his union succeeded in gaining the dignity and respect porters deserved.Īt his death in 1979, civil rights leader Bayard Rustin said: "No other living American has done more to seek justice for all the poor, the working classes, the minorities in our society and around the world than has A. Nixon, a Pullman porter from Montgomery, Ala., who organized the 1955 bus boycott after Rosa Park's arrest. ![]()
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