📅 25 August 1925
Porters formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters under A. Philip Randolph’s leadership. Organizing challenged poor conditions, company control, and racial inequality in employment. The union...
📅 25 June 1941
Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 after pressure including A. Philip Randolph’s proposed march on Washington. It prohibited discrimination in defense employment and created a complaints...
📅 26 July 1948
President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services regardless of race, colour, religion or national origin. Black veterans...
📅 17 May 1957
Demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to demand progress on civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr.’s address emphasized voting rights as a means to change public institutions. Organizers...
📅 28 August 1963
A mass demonstration in Washington demanded civil rights protections, employment and economic justice. Movement and labour organizations brought their constituencies together for the March on...
