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Randolph picketing in New York City, ca. 1960s.
To pressure the AFL-CIO to move faster toward racial equality, Randolph created the Negro American Labor Council (NALC) in 1960 -- his last attempt to forge an all-black movement. Under Randolph's leadership, from 1960 to 1964, the NALC functioned within organized labor. Largely in response to NALC pressure, the AFL-CIO passed a unanimous civil rights resolution in 1961. Randolph called it "the best resolution on civil rights the AFL-CIO has yet adopted." Photograph credit: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. |