How did the efforts of a. philip randolph further civil rights in the united states? he demanded that minorities be allowed to serve in non-segregated units of the marine corp. he persuaded leaders to pass an order forcing employers to stop discriminating against workers on the basis of race. he encouraged the government to release the nations' scientists from other duties to work on the manhattan project. he argued for minority workers to be allowed to strike if their wages were not increased in proportion to their employers' profits.