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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note from the Editors on the Text and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- The Case of the Pullman Porters (1925) -- Randolph Replies to Chicago "Surrender" Misnamed Defender (1927) -- A.F. of L. Redoubles its Support for Porters' Victory (1930) -- Why a Trade Union? (1931) -- Requesting International Charter for Sleeping Car Porters (1934) -- Remarks before U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce (1934) -- Pullman Porters Union will not Fold (1966) -- Report at Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Convention (1968) -- 2. Labor Leader at Large -- The Unemployment Crisis (1921) -- The Negro and the Labor Movement (1925) -- Race Workers Turning to the American Federation of Labor (1929) -- Open Letter Opposing Proposal to Ban Migration (1943) -- Telegram, Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis (1943) -- The Negro and CIO-AFL Merger (1955) -- Why the National Negro Labor Council (1959) -- Testimony before the Committee on Education and Labor (1961) -- The American Trade Union Movement at the Crossroads: Address at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1962) -- Testimony before the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (1963) -- Right-to-Work Laws called Threat to Decent Wages (1966) -- A Vision of Freedom (1969) -- A Labor Day Message (1978) -- 3. Randolph Speaks His Mind, 1919-1967 -- Lynching: Capitalism its Cause -- Socialism Its Cure (1919) -- A New Crowd-A New Negro (1919) -- The Failure of the Negro Church (1919) -- Segregation in the Public Schools (1924) -- Randolph Defies Boss Crump (1944) -- Keynote Address at Negro American Labor Council Convention (1962) -- African Methodism and the Negro in the Western World (1962) -- Lincoln University Commencement Address (1967).

Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America's multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation fornearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, theassaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencingof labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten amonglarge segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large.Historians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, buthis role (either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social,political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph's dusty portrait down fromthe wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new,and often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the veryfirst time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both establishedand emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiographyand blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse waysthat historians have approached the importance of his long and complex careerin the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-centuryAfrican American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. Thecentral goal of Reframing Randolph isto achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal