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unfriendlyatheist: Famous black atheists in history: Asa Philip Randolph Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing. He was one of several Black atheists involved in the civil rights movement.  Randolph was once known as the most dangerous black in America. As a socialist, he viewed the condition of American Blacks as the symptom of a larger social illness, an illness which is caused by an unfair distribution of power, wealth, and resources. The agent for spreading Mr. Randolph’s socialism was a magazine called the Messenger, founded in 1917, “the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes.” He co-edited the magazine with Chandler Owen, a fellow socialist who came to be Mr. Randolph’s closest friend. During Messenger’s first year, the November 1917 issue expressed the following Atheistic values: “Our aim is to appeal to reason, to lift our pens above the cringing demagogy of the times, and above the cheap peanut politics of the old reactionary Negro leaders. Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer as nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.” Randolph emerged as one of the most visible spokesmen for African-American civil rights.  In 1942, an estimated 18,000 blacks gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear Randolph kick off a campaign against discrimination in the military, in war industries, in government agencies, and in labor unions.  During the Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944, the government backed African-American workers’ striking to gain positions formerly limited to white employees.

unfriendlyatheist:

Famous black atheists in history: Asa Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing. He was one of several Black atheists involved in the civil rights movement. 

Randolph was once known as the most dangerous black in America. As a socialist, he viewed the condition of American Blacks as the symptom of a larger social illness, an illness which is caused by an unfair distribution of power, wealth, and resources. The agent for spreading Mr. Randolph’s socialism was a magazine called the Messenger, founded in 1917, “the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes.” He co-edited the magazine with Chandler Owen, a fellow socialist who came to be Mr. Randolph’s closest friend. During Messenger’s first year, the November 1917 issue expressed the following Atheistic values:

“Our aim is to appeal to reason, to lift our pens above the cringing demagogy of the times, and above the cheap peanut politics of the old reactionary Negro leaders. Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer as nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.”

Randolph emerged as one of the most visible spokesmen for African-American civil rights.  In 1942, an estimated 18,000 blacks gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear Randolph kick off a campaign against discrimination in the military, in war industries, in government agencies, and in labor unions.  During the Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944, the government backed African-American workers’ striking to gain positions formerly limited to white employees.

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