Arnold Aronson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Arnold Aronson

civil rights leader

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1911

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1998

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980.
In 1941 he worked with A.
Philip Randolph to pressure President Franklin D.
Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, opening jobs in the federal bureaucracy and in the defense industries to minorities.
A close associate of Randolph and Roy Wilkins, Aronson played an important role planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.