Labor Quiz: A. Philip Randolph

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Early in his career, labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph (at right) organized a union of what kind of workers in New York City? Subway workers, newsboys, or elevator operators? Click here and you could be next week’s winner!

Last Week’s Quiz: In 1944 Cesar Chavez joined the United States Navy at the age of seventeen for what he later called “the two worst years of my life.” Chavez had hoped that he would learn skills in the Navy that would help him later in civilian life, but he soon discovered that Mexican-Americans in the Navy in those days could only work as deckhands or painters.