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"Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South."

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About A. Philip Randolph

American labor union leader and civil-rights activist. He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped drive the 1963 March on Washington. He died in 1979.

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