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December 16, 1972

The New Yorker cover for December 16, 1972

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EARLY VOICE III-THE MARCH

Jervis Anderson

PROFILE of A. Philip Randolph, black civil rights leader, aged 83. In 1935 Randolph was asked to head the new National Negro Congress. He declined at first…