A. Philip Randolph

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

The most important civil rights achievement didn't come from Congress or the Court. It came from Harry Truman.

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President FDR heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military.

A civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double V campaign advocated for dual victories: over fascism abroad, and racial injustice in the U.S.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.