she was president of the national council of negro women for 40 years. she advised several presidents of the united states on civil rights. the times described her role in the movement this way. over the years historians have made much of the so-called big six who led the civil rights movement the reverend dr. martin luther king jr., james farmer, john lewis, a. phillip randolph, roy wilkins, and whitney m. young jr. ms. height, the only woman to work regularly alongside them on projects of national significance, was very much the unheralded seventh, the leader who was cropped out figuratively and often literally of images of the era. there she is in 1963 on the platform when dr. king delivered his i have a dream speech. she was one of the chief organizers of that event. and in high school she was the
wow. the second one is more important, relates to president obama s executive order around federal contract workers. in 1941, labor leader a. phillip randolph threatened a march on washington if the president did not issue an executive order to end discrimination in the defense industry for african-americans. it was only through the threat of disruption and protest that the president did it. and it s probably something that would not have passed legislatively it would not have passed and it was the first executive action on both workers rights and racial justice since the emancipation proclamation. i had debbie wasserman-schultz here the other night and said she liked the executive order. the way you and your colleagues act, violates how james madison thought you would act. he thought your allegiance would first be to your chamber then to your party. in fact, it s the other way around, right? what ends up happening, congress people get the executive due deference if it s th
obama s executive order around federal contract workers. in 1941, labor leader a. phillip randolph threatened a march on washington if the president did not issue an executive order to end discrimination in the defense industry for african-americans. it was only through the threat of disruption and protest that the president did it. and it s probably something that would not have passed legislatively it would not have passed and it was the first executive action on both workers rights and racial justice since the emancipation proclamation. i had debbie wasserman-schultz here the other night and said she liked the executive order. the way you and your colleagues act, violates how james madison thought you would act. he thought your allegiance would first be to your chamber then to your party. in fact, it s the other way around, right? what ends up happening, congress people get the executive due deference if it s their party
employees in 1939 roughly. wow. the second one is more important, relates to president obama s executive order around federal contract workers. in 1941, labor leader a. phillip randolph threatened a march on washington if the president did not issue an executive order to end discrimination in the defense industry for african-americans. it was only through the threat of disruption and protest that the president did it. and it s probably something that would not have passed legislatively it would not have passed and it was the first executive action on both workers rights and racial justice since the emancipation proclamation. i had deb bie wasserman-schultz here the other night and said she liked the executive order. the way you and your colleagues act, violates how james madison thought you would act. he thought your allegiance would first be to your chamber then to your party. in fact, it s the other way around, right? what ends up happening, congress people get the execut
a gun. let us take this one step further and maybe connect a few things. the march on washington in 1963 was organized by by a. phillip randolph, said the seminole moment of his youth was remembering his dad at the time of a race riot or some sort of racial challenge, his dad going out to try to make sure nobody got lynched and his mom sitting on the front porch with a shotgun. incredible stories. you fast forward today, what event has to happen that would galvanize a community, where the grown men and women would say, we re not going to take this? clearly, it s not education. clearly, it s not all the violence we see in communities. like, what is the thing the newtown massacre, right? what was it? six weeks, eight weeks, maybe ten weeks, where people were just like, this is just wrong. yet how many other school shootings have happened since then. is it because only, only, three children were killed or