united states. panelists explore the role of a. phillip randolph, the labor and civil rights leader who organized the union, as well as the struggles of female members. they also described the national parks service -- this was hosted by the association for the study of african-american life and history. it's about two hours. >>> thanks, everybody. >>> for coming here, we have got a great panel here, a. phillip randolph and the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. my name is allan spears. npca has served as the leading voice of the american people on behalf of their national parks since we were founded in 1919. and it's our mission to protect an enhance america's national parks for current and future generations and we are a very, very proud partner of aslh, the association and it's a partnership that i take great pleasure in and i'm grateful to the association for hosting their 99th annual conference and look forward to working with them on their centennial next year, that's quite a thing to look forward to. we have a couple of objectives today, we're going to take about two hours to chat with you, about some very important topics, a. phillip randolph, the brotherhood of sleeping c