Southern Region A. Philip Randolph Institute Conference Held in Savannah


The Southern Region A. Philip Randolph Institute Conference will be held Friday-Sunday, February 18- 20, 2011 at the Hilton Savannah Desoto.

Registration fee is $100 and includes opening reception, luncheon and all conference materials. Friday is open to the public. Saturday midday luncheon and conference will have State Representative Al Williams as the keynote speaker. APRI Southern Luncheon only is $50.

Sunday church services will be held at First Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 310 Alice St., Rev. Clarence Williams is the Pastor.

For more information please contact Chester Dunham, (912) 507-9940 or Davita Capers-White (912) 507-9980.

To A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, APRI’s cofounders, the fight for workers’ rights and civil rights were inseparable.

Randolph (1889-1979) was the greatest black labor leader in American history and the father of the modern American civil rights movement. Rustin (1912-1987), a leading civil rights and labor activist and strategist, was the chief organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Randolph’s greatest protege. Randolph and Rustin forged an alliance between the civil rights movement and the labor movement.

Inspired by this success, Randolph and Rustin founded A. Philip Randolph Institute in 1965 to continue the struggle for social, political and economic justice for all working Americans. Today, APRI is led by President Clayola Brown whose vision and energy has sparked a new beginning for our organization and for the movement as a whole.



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