Reading Battlefield Notes from A. Philip Randolph: Lessons in Labor, Freedom, Justice and Struggle - Los Angeles Sentinel

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Reading Battlefield Notes from A. Philip Randolph: Lessons in Labor, Freedom, Justice and Struggle - Los Angeles Sentinel

As we celebrate International Labor Day, May 1, and pay homage to the awesome sacrifices and costly struggles of Black workers and other workers of the world to get economic justice, it is important to remember A. Philip Randolph’s admonition that the struggle for freedom and justice is always an unfinished fact.

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