Reframing RandolphAt one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889 1979) was a household name. As president of the all black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment of Americas multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the