#StoriesThatMove: In 1925, Black Pullman porters worked 400 hours a month and lived on scraps. Phillip Randolph swore to change that.
For 12 brutal years, he built the first Black labor union in America–400,000 strong. 🤎
Then he aimed higher. He threatened to march 100,000 Black workers on Washington unless FDR banned discrimination in defense jobs. FDR caved. Truman caved–desegregating the entire U.S. military.
By 1963, he stood with MLK during the March On Washington, the march he’d first envisioned 22 years earlier, which finally came to life. 🏆
Source: thehumanityarchive
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