Andrew E. Kersten is associate professor of history and the chair of social change & development at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941–1946, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II, and numerous articles.

• ForewordChapter 1: From Preacher Son to Socialist Radical: Randolph's Formative Years in Florida and New York CityChapter 2: A Union Revolution: The Creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car PortersChapter 3: When Negroes Don't March: A. Philip Randolph and the Power of Protest Politics during World War IIChapter 4: Unfinished Business: Randolph's Civil Rights Struggles During the Cold WarChapter 5: The 1963 March on Washington: Randolph's Finest HourAfterwordDocumentsBibliographic Essay

Andrew Kersten's A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard accomplishes its goals to an exceptional degree. In clear, often eloquent, prose Kersten relates the essentials of Randolph's life and achievements. Kersten's sympathetic, but not uncritical, portrait is grounded in the extensive primary sources and recent scholarly studies without being overwhelmed by them. For the interested general reader and the discerning undergraduate, Kersten's Randolph should be the biography of choice.

Andrew E. Kersten is associate professor of history and the chair of social change & development at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941–1946, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II, and numerous articles.

• ForewordChapter 1: From Preacher Son to Socialist Radical: Randolph's Formative Years in Florida and New York CityChapter 2: A Union Revolution: The Creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car PortersChapter 3: When Negroes Don't March: A. Philip Randolph and the Power of Protest Politics during World War IIChapter 4: Unfinished Business: Randolph's Civil Rights Struggles During the Cold WarChapter 5: The 1963 March on Washington: Randolph's Finest HourAfterwordDocumentsBibliographic Essay

Andrew Kersten's A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard accomplishes its goals to an exceptional degree. In clear, often eloquent, prose Kersten relates the essentials of Randolph's life and achievements. Kersten's sympathetic, but not uncritical, portrait is grounded in the extensive primary sources and recent scholarly studies without being overwhelmed by them. For the interested general reader and the discerning undergraduate, Kersten's Randolph should be the biography of choice.

Andrew E. Kersten is associate professor of history and the chair of social change & development at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941–1946, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II, and numerous articles.

• ForewordChapter 1: From Preacher Son to Socialist Radical: Randolph's Formative Years in Florida and New York CityChapter 2: A Union Revolution: The Creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car PortersChapter 3: When Negroes Don't March: A. Philip Randolph and the Power of Protest Politics during World War IIChapter 4: Unfinished Business: Randolph's Civil Rights Struggles During the Cold WarChapter 5: The 1963 March on Washington: Randolph's Finest HourAfterwordDocumentsBibliographic Essay

Andrew Kersten's A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard accomplishes its goals to an exceptional degree. In clear, often eloquent, prose Kersten relates the essentials of Randolph's life and achievements. Kersten's sympathetic, but not uncritical, portrait is grounded in the extensive primary sources and recent scholarly studies without being overwhelmed by them. For the interested general reader and the discerning undergraduate, Kersten's Randolph should be the biography of choice.