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Subject(s)

• Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip) 1889-1979 [Browse]
• Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip) 1889-1979—Religion [Browse]
• African Americans—Religion [Browse]
• Civil rights—Religious aspects—Case studies [Browse]
• Religion and politics—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• African American labor leaders—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Civil rights workers—United States—Biography [Browse]

Summary note

A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, he was probably the greatest civil rights leader of the twentieth century until Martin Luther King."Scholarship has traditionally portrayed Randolph as an atheist and anti-religious, his connections to African American religion either ignored or misrepresented. Taylor places Randolph within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She demonstrates that Randolph’s religiosity covered a wide spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs, from a religious humanism on the left, to orthodox theological positions on the right, never straying far from his African Methodist roots.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

In English.

Contents

• One of the sons of African Methodism
• The Messenger : a forum for liberal religion
• The Brotherhood : religion for the working class
• The 1940s march on Washington Movement : experiments in prayer protests, liberation and Black theology, and Gandhian Satyagraha
• The miracle of Montgomery
• Epilogue: the old gentleman.

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ISBN

1-4798-9938-0

OCLC

957700641

Doi

• 10.18574/nyu/9781479899388

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