Asa Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist, trade union leader, and crusader for justice, was born in Crescent City, Florida, on April 15, 1889, to Rev. James Williams and Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. His father was a minister at this church, where Randolph attended as a youth. In 1925 he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and served as its president until 1968. He also founded a group that later became the League of Non Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation, and he was the first president of the Negro American Labor Council from 1960 to 1966. Randolph originated two major marches on Washington, one in 1941 and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, which brought more than 200,000 people to the capital. In 1965 he formed the A. Philip Randolph Institute for community leaders to study the causes of poverty. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Johnson in 1964, died in New York City on May 16, 1979, and in 1989 became the second union president to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.