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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Meany once asked A. Philip Randolph, "who the hell appointed you spokesman for the whole Negro race?" The President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters could have answered, "process of elimination," because he is the only Negro among the AFL-CIO executive leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meany and the Unions | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...Randolph's moreover, is the only voice in the executive council both consistent and insistent in calling for an end to segregation in the nation's unions. Yet, last week a special AFL-CIO subcommittee blamed Randolph for "the gap that has developed between organized labor and the Negro community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meany and the Unions | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...subcommittee report, Meany-inspired in its aim and its reasoning, was followed by a comment from the AFL's grand poobah himself: "In the last two or three years," Meany said of Randolph, "he's gotten close to these militant groups and he's given up cooperation for propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meany and the Unions | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...Blacks has been used to titillate rather than challenge. The result is intellectual exploitation of a currently catchy theme. It becomes off-beat, not serious, hip, not important. Irony wins, not Genet: in a community that virtually exiles its militant Negro leader, Robert Williams, and castigates A. Phillip Randolph, The Blacks remains the most successful off-Broadway show...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Deathwatch | 10/16/1961 | See Source »

...Boston merger was also fresh evidence that Richard E. Berlin, 67, cost-conscious president of the parent Hearst Corp., intends to strip the Hearst chain of all its weak links. Since 1951, when Chain Forger William Randolph Hearst died, Berlin has sold three Hearstpapers (Chicago's American, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the Detroit Times) and merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, retaining only a financial interest in the hyphenated News-Call Bulletin. At least three other Hearstpapers have been offered for sale: the Los Angeles morning Examiner and evening Herald-Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Step Forward | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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