In the early 1940s, Randolph organized a March on Washington movement to protest discrimination in government hiring practices and segregation in the armed forces. Flyers like this one urged black Chicagoans to support Randolph’s plans. Randolph called off the proposed march after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that banned discrimination in government hiring. Two decades later, African Americans returned to Randolph’s vision and marched for jobs and freedom in Washington DC in 1963.

Museum collection, ICHi-062389