This is precisely what the Black Power
advocates of the late sixties claimed had happened to the civil
rights movement, and they gave the same reasons for its
collapse.
In 1947, Randolph cooperated with Grant Reynolds in organizing
the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military
Segregation; its aim was to encourage draft resisters objecting
to serving in a segregated army. Randolph was also one of a
delegation which told President Truman that America could not
afford to fight colored people in Asia with the army as it then
existed. Truman, then, took the first real steps in ending
military segregation. In 1963, Randolph and Bayard Rustin did
organize a massive march on Washington. Most of the publicity,
however, went to Martin Luther King, Jr., its main speaker. This
march contributed significantly to the passage of civil rights
legislation. However, most of Randolph's efforts continued to be
in the realm of union organization. In 1957, he was made a vice
president in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and a member of its executive
council. Two years later, he was censured for charging organized
labor with racism.
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