Lucille Green Randolph

Lucille Campbell Green Randolph (1883-1963), was born in Christiansburg, Virginia. In 1883, she was trained as a school teacher. A widow, she married A. Philip Randolph in 1914. A graduate of Howard University, in Washington D.C., she was also one of the first graduates of Madam C.J. Walker's Beauty School in Harlem. She also owned and operated an exclusive beauty parlor on 135th Street from 1913 to 1927. Mrs. Randolph was a crucial source of financial support for her husband's subsequent political, civil rights and labor activism. Her husband, Asa Philip Randolph, was an outspoken civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. [A. Randolph Portrait Collection]