American History Term Paper Meeting Form:
1. Students’ Term paper assigned historical figure (Who will you be meeting?)
Asa Philip Randolph
2. List the books or websites where you found information on your historical assigned
figure.
Anderson, Jervis. A. Phillip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. University of California Press,
1972.
Hall, Simon. “The Response of the Moderate Wing of the Civil Rights Movement to the War in
Vietnam on JSTOR.” The Historical Journal, vol. 46, no. 3, 2003, pp. 669–701,
www.jstor.org/stable/3133567.
Knauer, Christine. “‘With a Stroke of a Pen’: Executive Order 9981 in American Memory.”
History and Memory, vol. 35, no. 2, Indiana University Press, Sept. 2023, pp. 41–78,
https://doi.org/10.2979/ham.2023.a906480.
Miller, Elizabeth Ellis. “The Moves of Civil Rights: Examining the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for
Freedom.” Journal for the History of Rhetoric, vol. 26, no. 2, July 2023, pp. 205–16,
https://doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0205.
Rustin, Bayard. “A. Philip Randolph.” The Yale Review, 1 Apr. 1987, The Yale Review | Bayard
Rustin: "A. Philip Randolph".
Summerville, Raymond M. “‘Winning Freedom and Exacting Justice’”: A. Philip Randolph’s
Use of Proverbs and Proverbial Language.” Proverbium, vol. 37, no. 1, 2020, pp. 281–
310.
3. List 3 interesting details about this person you will be including in this article.
a. I will be including how Randolph grew up in a religious household then grew up and
distanced himself from the church. This happened when he started after his exposure
to new philosophies that convinced him to indulge in the fight for social equality.
b. Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, becoming the
first African American to lead a major labor union in the United States.
c. The last interesting detail is that he was a principal organizer in the 1963 March in the
Nation’s capital. In this protest, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I
Have a Dream” speech. This event was a pivotal moment in the civil rights
movement.
4. Are you having any problems with the project? If so, explain here:
My major problem in this project was how I would articulate my thoughts to sound like a
journalist from 1968. I am unsure of the tone and tense needed in typical reporting from this era
as I want to maintain authenticity in my article.
I could only access limited primary sources, such as some of Randolph’s speeches and
interviews. I hoped to find something like his diaries to get insight into his religious beliefs.