Randolph Blackwell

Randolph T. Blackwell (born March 10, 1927 in

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African-American Civil Rights Movement

Events (timeline)	Brown v. Board of Education Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Improvement Association Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Browder v. Gayle Mansfield School Desegregation 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Little Rock Nine Kissing Case Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Boynton v. Virginia Freedom Rides attacks Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Mississippi Movement Freedom Schools COFO workers' murders 1963 Birmingham Movement and Children's Crusade Letter from Birmingham Jail Birmingham riot of 1963 16th Street Baptist Church 1963 Church bombing University of Alabama integration John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights address March on Washington "I Have a Dream" "2nd Emancipation Proclamation" "Big Six" Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party St. Augustine Movement Twenty-fourth Amendment 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches Brown Chapel Edmund Pettus Bridge Voting Rights Act of 1965 SCOPE 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections March Against Fear Black Power White House Conference on Civil Rights Memphis Sanitation Strike King assassination funeral riots Poor People's Campaign Civil Rights Acts 1957 1960 1964 1965 1968

Related	Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Hocutt v. Wilson Loving v. Virginia Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States Katzenbach v. McClung Fifth Circuit Four Freedom Songs "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" "Oh, Freedom" "This Little Light of Mine" "We Shall Not Be Moved" "We Shall Overcome" Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Watts riots Voter Education Project 1960s counterculture

Activist groups	Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Atlanta Student Movement Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Council for United Civil Rights Leadership Deacons for Defense and Justice Georgia Council on Human Relations Highlander Folk School Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Nashville Student Movement NAACP Youth Council Northern Student Movement National Council of Negro Women National Urban League Operation Breadbasket Regional Council of Negro Leadership Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Southern Regional Council Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) The Freedom Singers Women's Political Council

Activists	Ralph Abernathy Victoria Gray Adams Zev Aelony Mathew Ahmann William G. Anderson Gwendolyn Armstrong Ella Baker Marion Barry Daisy Bates Harry Belafonte James Bevel Claude Black Randolph Blackwell Unita Blackwell Ezell Blair, Jr. Joanne Bland Julian Bond Joseph E. Boone William Holmes Borders Raylawni Branch Aurelia Browder H. Rap Brown Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael Johnnie Carr J.L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm Ramsey Clark Septima Clark Xernona Clayton Eldridge Cleaver Kathleen Neal Cleaver Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Annie Devine Patricia Stephens Due Charles Evers Medgar Evers Myrlie Evers-Williams Chuck Fager James Farmer Walter Fauntroy James Forman Marie Foster Golden Frinks Camille Gravel Fred Gray Dick Gregory Lawrence Guyot Prathia Hall Fannie Lou Hamer William E. Harbour Dorothy Height Lola Hendricks Aaron Henry Oliver Hill Donald L. Hollowell Myles Horton Zilphia Horton T. R. M. Howard Ruby Hurley Jesse Jackson Jimmie Lee Jackson T. J. Jemison Esau Jenkins Barbara Rose Johns Vernon Johns Frank Johnson Lyndon Johnson Clarence Jones Matthew Jones Vernon Jordan Tom Kahn Clyde Kennard A. D. King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Sr. Bernard Lafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Malcolm X Mae Mallory Thurgood Marshall Franklin McCain Ralph McGill Joseph McNeil James Meredith William Ming Amzie Moore William Moore Irene Morgan Bob Moses Bill Moyer Diane Nash Charles Neblett E. D. Nixon Hunter Pitts O'Dell James Orange Rosa Parks James Peck Charles Person Homer Plessy Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Fay Bellamy Powell Al Raby Lincoln Ragsdale A. Philip Randolph George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Gloria Richardson Amelia Boynton Robinson Jo Ann Robinson Bayard Rustin Michael Schwerner Cleveland Sellers Charles Sherrod Fred Shuttlesworth Modjeska Monteith Simkins Kelly Miller Smith Mary Louise Smith Charles Kenzie Steele Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud C. T. Vivian Wyatt Tee Walker Hollis Watkins Roy Wilkins Hosea Williams Kale Williams Robert F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young James Zwerg

Influences	Nonviolence Padayatra Mohandas K. Gandhi Ahimsa Satyagraha Leo Tolstoy Frederick Douglass W. E. B. Du Bois

Noted historians	Taylor Branch Clayborne Carson John Dittmer Michael Eric Dyson Chuck Fager Adam Fairclough David Garrow David Halberstam Steven F. Lawson Doug McAdam Diane McWhorter Timothy B. Tyson Akinyele Umoja Movement photographers

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Blackwell, Randolph T. (1927-1981)", Martin Luther King, Jr., and the global freedom struggle (The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University) .
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^ "Unsung giant of civil rights Dr Randolph Blackwell dies", .
^ "Shooting angers rights leader; big campaign set in Mississippi", .
^ Lytle, Mark H. (2006), America's uncivil wars: the Sixties era from Elvis to the fall of Richard Nixon, Oxford University Press, p. 133, .
^ "Rural Action Helps to Give Poor Southern Blacks Jobs and Pride", .
^ Mitchell, Grayson (January 1975), "Southern Rural Action, Inc., spurs blacks to create and maintain small industries", .
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References

In 1976 he was given the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, and in 1978 the National Bar Association gave him their Equal Justice Award.^[2]^[3]

From 1977 to 1979, in the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Blackwell was director of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise in the U.S. Department of Commerce,^[2]^[3] but was beset there by charges of mismanagement.^[10]

While at Alabama A & M, Blackwell became a leader of the 1962 student Deep South.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[8]^[9]

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Blackwell's father was active in Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association; Randolph attended association meetings with his father, and visited the prison where Garvey was held. In 1943, inspired by hearing Ella Baker speak, he founded a youth chapter of the NAACP in Greensboro. As a student in sociology at North Carolina A & T University (from which he graduated in 1949) he made an unsuccessful run for the state assembly. He earned a law degree from Howard University in 1953, took an assistant professorship at Winston-Salem Teacher’s College and then became an associate professor in 1954 at Alabama A & M College, where he taught government.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^[5]^[4] described him as an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change.Coretta Scott King ^[3]^[2][1]

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Randolph Blackwell