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On this day in Crescent City, Florida, A. Philip Randolph was born.
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Randolph graduates from the Cookman Institute in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Randolph falls in love and gets married to a beautiful woman named Lucille Green.
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Randolph begins to write a magazine called The Messenger trying to persuade blacks not to join World War 1.
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Randolph creates the BSCP to create a black union where the porters can be treated fairly and have equal pay.
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Randolph is awarded a Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Randolphs wife, Lucille dies on this day from multiple illnesses.
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At the age of 73 A. Philip Randolph organizes the March on Washington, which had more than 250,000 African Americans attend.
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John F. Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Randolph creates APRI so that blacks can have an oppportunity to succeed in life.
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A. Philip Randolph and hundreds of other marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest discrimination in voting.
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On this day President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Randolph the Presidental Medal of Freedom for his lifetime acheivements.
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A. Philip Randolph's good friend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed at Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
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At the age of 90 A. Philip Randolph dies in New York City.
