The corner of W. 125th Street & Lenox Avenue was a popular site for orators to address the residents of Harlem. In 1948, A. Philip Randolph urged blacks not to submit to the peacetime draft as a means of protesting racial discrimination. His actions were instrumental in the creation of an anti-discrimination executive order signed by President Harry Truman later that year. Randolph was the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.

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