this march is planned largely by this guy named philip randolph.ullet ran up was ahead head of a union in all black union. he'd been the head of this union basically since the renaissance in the 1920s. this union start up pretty small but had been growing to the 1930s and going into the 1940s is getting pretty big and pretty influential. they met in harlem, that's where they were largely headquartered. they're pretty influential in terms of getting people who worked on trains into this unit and fighting for increased african-american civil rights. because they're coming so influential in new york especially both in the state and the city of new york, a lot of white politicians stopped by their organization are at their convention to speak and pay homage. they wanted the black vote. and so their union meeting in 1940 attracts thousands of people. but among the thousands of people come to that meeting our newark city mayor laguardia, near state governor and future senator herbert lehman, united states secretary of labor frances perkins and the first