A. Phillip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph success made him the obvious choice as president of the Communist-backed National Negro Congress (NNC). Randolph’s primary focus in pre-WWII America was for African Americans to share the explosion boom at munitions factories. More than half the factories awarded government contracts in the early 40s declared they would hire whites only. Those that did hire blacks bypassed them for skilled jobs thereby relegated black workers to mop and broom work. Even worse, as the economy rebounded from the Great Depression, New Deal Programs that had benefited African Americans were drawing to a close.