A. Philip Randolph was a well known civil rights leader. During the 1940s, his work was focused mainly on which of the following?
ending racial discrimination of war industries voting rights protection for African Americans fair employment practices for men and women equal rights for women in the armed services
1940s: Think WWII. Lots of people working on airplanes, ships and weapons. Black men in the military usually were used for menial labor. Private war industries treated black about the same way. They got the menial jobs: carrying things, cleaning things, and jobs of that sort. Randolph advocated desegregation of the military and equal access to good jobs. So consider the Answers. A fits Randolph pretty well B is voting rights, not a priority during the war C could work, but he wasn't interested in the man/woman thing. He focused on racial equality. D is the armed services, which he worked on but it's about women, he focused on racial
Join our real-time social learning platform and learn together with your friends!