A. Philip Randolph argued that requiring African Americans to fight for

democracy in other countries was unfair because:

They were denied right in their own country

Phillip Randolf believed that situation was unfair because African American did not receive the rights they deserved in their own country.

Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, as well as socialist political parties.

In 1925, he organized and led the first predominantly African-American labor union known as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters