A. Philip Randolph engages in his first labor organizing.

(Spring) Randolph, 23, who had no previous experience, had talked his way onto a job as a waiter on the steamship Paul Revere on a trip from New York to Boston. On the return trip, he is fired for trying to organize the ships waiter and kitchen help. Randolph, with Milton Webster, goes on to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union in New York in 1925.