re: #53 Teddy’s Person

Randolph organized a march on Washington in the early 1940s to put pressure on Truman. The march didn’t happen because Truman desegregate the defense industry (Executive Order No. 8802, Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries)

FDR you mean. FDR desegregated defense industries and Truman desegregated the military entirely a few years later. But yes Randolph was doing this stuff for a long time. I love learning about men like him since while we don’t celebrate their birthday like we do MLK, they paved the way for him and MLK certainly knew that oto.