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BSCP and First
After four decades of service as the First Vice President of the BSCP, Milton Webster was designated to be Randolph ’ s successor as Brotherhood President when Randolph retired.

BSCP and Price
Bradley, Paul Caldwell, George Price, C. Francis Stratford and Roy Lancaster, and who formed the initial organizers and board members of the BSCP.

BSCP and Webster
Randolph, Webster, and the leadership of the BSCP recognized, in the end, that a strike at that time would have seriously crippled the Brotherhood, agreeing that the Brotherhood was still not strong enough to carry off a strike against the powerful corporate giant like Pullman.

BSCP and have
The BSCP also tried to involve the federal government in its fight with the Pullman Company: on September 7, 1927 the Brotherhood filed a case with the Interstate Commerce Commission, requesting an investigation of Pullman rates, porters ' wages, tipping practices, and other matters related to wages and working conditions ; the ICC ruled that it did not have jurisdiction.

BSCP and American
Thus ended the direct lineage of BSCP leadership, with Young becoming the first non-African American to lead the on-board group.
The BSCP became the only black-led union within the American Federation of Labor in 1935.

BSCP and white
After secretly meeting with the Pullman Company, the NMB refused to follow precedent it had set in the case of a group of white railroad workers, and refused to act in behalf of the BSCP.

BSCP and if
Randolph and the BSCP took the battle against employment discrimination even further, threatening a March on Washington in 1942 if the government did not take steps to outlaw racial discrimination by defense contractors.

BSCP and be
The CIO was much more committed to organizing African-American workers and made strenuous efforts to persuade the BSCP to join it, but Randolph believed more could be done to advance black workers ' rights, particularly in the railway industry, by remaining in the AFL, to which the other railway brotherhoods belonged.

BSCP and .
In 1925 Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ( BSCP ) and was elected president.
The leaders of the BSCP — including A. Philip Randolph, its first president, and C. L. Dellums, its vice president and second president, became leaders in the civil rights movement and continued to play a significant role in it after it focused on the eradication of segregation in the South.
BSCP members such as E. D. Nixon were among the leadership of local civil rights movements by virtue of their organizing experience, constant movement between communities and freedom from economic dependence on local authorities.
From its inception, the BSCP fought to open doors in the organized labor movement in the US for black workers, even though it faced staunch opposition and blatant racism.
In 1925, in the early days of organizing the BSP union, Randolph was invited, by BSCP union organizer Ashley Totten, to address the Porters Athletic Association, in New York City in 1925.
Local authorities, such as Boss Crump in Memphis, Tennessee in some cases helped the Company by interfering with or banning BSCP meetings.
They also successfully fought efforts by communist to infiltrate the BSCP.
By 1928 BSCP leaders decided that the only way to force the issue was to strike the Company.
That provoked an internal crisis, deepened by the Great Depression, paucity of funding for the union, and perpetual reprisals against the porters by the Pullman company, which led to a sharp drop in BSCP membership.
The BSCP immediately demanded that the NMB certify it as the representative of these porters.
The BSCP defeated the company union in the election held by the NMB and on June 1, 1935 was certified.
The BSCP won a charter from the AFL in 1935, the same year it was certified by the NMB.
In the years before then, when the AFL refused to recognize the organization itself, Randolph accepted " federal local " status for a number of locals of the BSCPan unsatisfactory compromise that assumed that these locals had no union of their own, and allowed them to affiliate directly with the AFL on that basis.
Randolph kept the BSCP in the AFL, where most of the railroad brotherhoods remained, after John L. Lewis led the split that resulted in the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

co-founder and First
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The minister at the funeral service was Gerald L. K. Smith, co-founder of Share Our Wealth and subsequently of the America First Party, and the founder of the " Christ of the Ozarks " passion play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
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She was co-founder of the French organisation Les Amies De L ' Aviation Sanitaire ( Friends of Aviation Medicine ) and was also one of the organizers behind the success of the First International Congress on Medical Aviation in 1929.
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Ken F. Levin, co-founder of First Comics, and Mike Gold, Grimjacks original editor, set out to free the rights to the character from legal limbo.
The first CVO was probably Einar Stefferud who became co-founder and CVO of First Virtual Holdings in 1994.
# Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, First Chancellor and co-founder
She is the former Chief of Staff to First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and co-founder and chairman of the board of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international non-governmental organization that supports global women's leadership.
It sponsored the First American Congress of Theatre ( FACT ) in 1974, and is best known as creator and owner of The American Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre -- the Tony Awards — named for its co-founder and wartime Chair.
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