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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) RANDOLPH, A. PHILLIP. Calling Calling All Negroes. We Are Americans Too Conference. Illustrated program. With a "cap" to be worn in the demonstration. 24 pages. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. The cap made of cardboard and paper with "We Are Americans Too Conference" printed in red white and blue. [Chicago, 1943]
A rare survival. This conference grew out of the 1941 March on Washington to end discrimination in the Army, organized by A. Phillip Randolph of the Pullman Porters Union. This booklet features a full page photograph of Winfred Lynn in uniform with the heading: "The War's Greatest Scandal (Jim Crow in the Army)." The war was raging in 1942 and few were as concerned about segregation in the U.S. armed forces as they were about defeating the hated Axis Powers. But Winfred Lynn, a 36 year-old landscape gardener from Jamaica, had sworn he would not fight in a segregated Army. Lynn later "agreed" to be drafted, though he continued to fight in the courts. His case helped set in motion the forces which resulted in the end of Army segregation in 1948.
