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April 15, 1882, Christiansburg, VA
Death
April 12, 1963 (79)
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Joseph Green
A. Philip Randolph (President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters)
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Howard University
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Primary financial backer of The Messenger (1917–1928), a political and literary magazine co-founded by her husband A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen that published during the Harlem Renaissance and featured writers including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay.
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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