A. Philip Randolph’s Radical, Stirring Speech at the 1963 March on Washington...59 years ago

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Did you know: A few months after the March on Washington, with civil rights legislation still languishing in Congress, A Philip Randolph threatened to call a general strike. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed that summer

A. Philip Randolph’s Radical, Stirring Speech at the 1963 March on Washington

The official head of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington was socialist A. Philip Randolph. In his speech, reprinted here, he called for restructuring society so the “sanctity of private property takes second place to the sanctity of the human personality.”

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Did you know: A few months after the March on Washington, with civil rights legislation still languishing in Congress, A Philip Randolph threatened to call a general strike. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed that summer

A. Philip Randolph’s Radical, Stirring Speech at the 1963 March on Washington

The official head of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington was socialist A. Philip Randolph. In his speech, reprinted here, he called for restructuring society so the “sanctity of private property takes second place to the sanctity of the human personality.”

jacobin.com

The official head of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington was socialist A. Philip Randolph. In his speech, reprinted here, he called for restructuring society so the “sanctity of private property takes second place to the sanctity of the human personality.”

Well yeah, no surprise there. He was a strong Socialist, and was pretty much a non-Marxist Communist. He hated the mainstream CP and the influence of the Soviet Union, but he believed in most other things they did. Such as massive redistribution of wealth, as dictated by the Unions.

I fail to see what the point is though.