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The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...
ground has been broken for the nation's first Women's History Museum dedicated to the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). The museum stands as the inaugural ...
A. Phillip Randolph and Milton P. Webster were key figures who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Their legacy ...
A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...
The President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters could have answered, "process of elimination," because he is the only Negro among the AFL-CIO executive leaders. Randolph's moreover ...
It once belonged to a Pullman Company sleeping-car porter, an African-American man—the headpiece to a pristine white uniform. Patricia Heaston got it from a friend, whose father was a porter ...
Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.
Asa Philip Randolph founded and became the leader of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), an African-American trade union. Randolph and his fellow porters were low paid, worked long ...
The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II.
This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s.