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Randolph, AFL-CIO vice-president, addresses the 1961 AFL-CIO convention.
At the convention, Randolph charged "second-class citizenship" of blacks in the labor movement. With BSCP support, Randolph introduced antidiscrimination resolutions at almost every AFL and AFL-CIO convention from 1929 to the late 1960s, demanding that the federation more vigorously organize blacks, and impose sanctions upon or expel unions guilty of excluding blacks -- by constitutions, rituals, tacit consent or segregated locals. In 1981, as a visual symbol of its centenary celebration, the AFL-CIO adopted a modern logo featuring clasped white and black hands. Photograph courtesy: George Meany Memorial Archives. |