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Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Ceremonial Street Designation
Honoree: A. Philip Randolph
Date(s): Monday, April 15, 2024
Official Street Name(s): Intersection on Market Street and Raymond Plaza
Ceremonial Intersection Name: A. Philip Randolph Plaza
Sponsor: Council Member, C. Lawrence Crump
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WHEREAS, Ordinance 6PSF-f, adopted on May 20, 2015, authorizes the designation of an intersection, etc. for honorary and ceremonial purposes; and
WHEREAS, Asa Philip Randolph, is recognized as one of the most influential civil rights and American labor movement activists in the 20th Century and considered the "dean of Negro leaders" by civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he was born April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida; and
WHEREAS, A. Philip Randolph, as he was affectionately known, began organizing African-American workers' rights in the early 1920's, achieved national acclaim in 1925 when he organized and became president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, America's first successful African-American-led labor union, which arguably became the nation's most influential African-American labor union through the 1950's. An early proponent of Mahtma Ghandi's non-violence strategies, his threatened use of marches and strikes led to the dismantling and changes in racist and discriminatory American labor practices in the military, war industries, federal agencies and labor unions; and
WHEREAS, throughout the 1950's and 60's, he was not only a leading voice in the struggle for freedom and equality for African-Americans, but formed important alliances with Jewish groups, liberal white organizations and other labor movement organizations seeking equality and fairness. ...
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