Memphis A. Philip Randolph Institute
Memphis chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, co-plaintiff challenging Tennessee's redrawn map.
The Memphis A. Philip Randolph Institute carries the name of labour leader A. Philip Randolph and is a co-plaintiff in Sherman v. Hargett, the Tennessee redistricting case a federal panel declined to halt on 23 July 2026.
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Black trade unionists in Memphis run the city's chapter of a national civil-rights organisation founded by the man who built the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped lead the 1963 March on Washington, A. Philip Randolph. The chapter has kept that pairing of union organising and voting rights among Black workers in the city.
It signed on as a plaintiff in Sherman v. Hargett in May 2026, one of several Memphis bodies and voters contesting the boundaries the legislature enacted that spring, with support from the American Civil Liberties Union. The new lines run through neighbourhoods where its own members live and work.
On 23 July a three-judge court refused to suspend those lines before the 6 August primary, holding that partisan advantage rather than race explained them. The Institute remains a plaintiff in the dilution case still awaiting trial.
