Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. - Review - book review

African American Review, Spring, 2000

> Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1996. 390 pp. $15.95 paper. As the title suggests, this book argues that "Randolph's ideologies and strategies provided the blueprint for the civil rights movement that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s." Although only scanty attention is paid to Randolph's early radicalism, The Messenger, or the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Pfeffer demonstrates his key role in developing mass movements for civil rights, economic opportunity, and desegregation of the military.