The Alternate Historian's video: What If A Philip Randolph Marched on Washington in 1941

In 1941, civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph vowed to lead a march on Washington if the war industries were not opened up to African-Americans. Ultimately FDR gave in, but what if the march still happened? Email: ahwupdate at gmail dot com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Alternate-Historian-1652862815001939/ Twitter: @alt_historian, @mattmitrovich Blog: http://alternatehistorian.blogspot.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattmitrovich SOURCES & PHOTO CREDITS https://www.facebook.com/groups/2208892565/permalink/10158984832072566/ https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/african-americans-threaten-march-washington-1941 https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmarchW.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-Philip-Randolph https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/asa-philip-randolph https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/a-philip-randolph https://www.biography.com/activist/a-philip-randolph https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/randolph-philip http://www.apri.org/randolph.html https://www.nps.gov/people/a-phillip-randolph.htm https://books.google.com/books?id=MnflBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA436 =onepage&q&f=false https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/a-philip-randolph-socialist-civil-rights-march-bscp https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/pressclub/pdf/APhilipRandolph.pdf https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133750451/Saluting-A-Phillip-Randolph-Workers-Champion https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20130824/NEWS/801247765 https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/randolph-challenges-fdr.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/05/18/a-philip-randolph-hailed-as-giant-in-civil-rights-battle/cf68c8bf-4c0b-44f8-a4b9-b0dfba7bb542/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-xpm-2013-08-29-bs-md-randolph-backstory-20130829-story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101212025423/http://aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html https://digital.library.sc.edu/blogs/academy/2019/06/13/dbq-how-did-world-war-ii-impact-the-social-advancements-of-women-and-african-americans/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/march-washington-movement-1941-1947/ https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/labor-land/until-victory-comes https://www.history.com/news/black-rosie-the-riveters-wwii-homefront-great-migration https://www.military.com/history/african-american-heroism-in-the-military http://theraucousrooster.com/2016/01/14/january-14-1941-a-philip-randolph-calls-for-a-march-on-washington/ Wikipedia.org