(A) Martin Luther King Jr.
(B) James Meredith
(C) ** Phillip Randolph
(D) Thurgood Marshall
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The 1941 March on Washington promoted greater opportunities for African Americans in the defense industry and the desegregation of the military. Which labor and civil rights leader organized this event? Martin Luther King Jr.
Concept note-2: -On Jan. 25, 1941, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, made the official call for a march on Washington, with the demand to end segregation in defense industries.
Concept note-3: -Randolph directed the March on Washington movement to end employment discrimination in the defense industry and a national civil disobedience campaign to ban segregation in the armed forces. The nonviolent protest and mass action effort inspired the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Concept note-4: -Philip Randolph, the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened to lead a peaceful march of 10, 000 African Americans on Washington, DC, to demand an end to racial segregation in the government, especially the military, and to demand greater equality in the hiring practices of defense industries.
Concept note-5: -Philip Randolph was a labor leader and civil rights activist who founded the nation’s first major Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) in 1925. In the 1930s, his organizing efforts helped end both racial discrimination in defense industries and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.