Asa Philip Randolph was a trade unionist of the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
In 1941 he proposed a march to Washington DC, to protest against racial discrimination in military industries, asking for an end to segregation, access to defense work, the proposal for an anti-lynching law and the desegregation of the Armed Forces. Randolph threatened to have 50,000 African-Americans ready to march on the city. The protest was canceled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 8802, which banned racial discrimination in the defense industry of the United States.
