On the non-Communist left, A. Philip Randolph, the socialist intellectual at the helm of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, mounted a March on Washington movement in the early 1940's that finally yoked the mass spirit of the Garvey phenomenon to a legitimate agenda: wiping out discrimination in war industries.
There's no mention of politics, poverty, discrimination, guns, war, or any of the darkness that has consumed us this year.
The names are a lasting memory of the horrors that they suffered and a reminder of the consequences of racism, discrimination and war.
It is carried from childhood to adult life, and expressed in business and politics that results in poverty, discrimination, and war, instead of prosperity, equality, and peace.
In the 1940's, he worked as an assistant to A. Philip Randolph, the Harlem-based labor leader, and helped organize a campaign against racial discrimination in war-related jobs -- a successful campaign, all in all, that played a role in integrating the armed forces, eventually.
Solving the deficit, fighting discrimination, ending wars and seeking a more peaceful world.
German industry practiced a different type of price discrimination before World War I by maintaining high domestic prices through steep tariffs and selling abroad at a loss, thus gaining control of foreign markets.
He recorded several protest songs, including "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," about an American Indian who was one of the marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima but descended into alcoholism after experiencing discrimination after the war.
Vividly, cinematically drawn, its descriptions of towers crumbling, oceans drying and rapists fleeing – as well as its promise of an end to war, discrimination and superficiality – capture terror and justice in equal measure.
