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New York State Socialist Party platform, 1921.
Randolph joined the Socialist Party in 1916 and, in 1921, unsuccessfully ran for Secretary of State. Like other young Harlem radicals, he became a soapbox orator propagandizing for socialism and labor unionism -- on street corners and in pool halls, barber shops and beauty parlors. Randolph became inactive in the mid-1920s, but rejoined the party in 1969. Photograph credit: Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. |