Guide to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection

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Guide to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection

1970-1999

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/oh_021/

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph, Ashley L. Totten, W. H. Des Verney, and Roy Lancaster. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Black people who worked as sleeping car porters and were members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The interviews date from the 1970s to the 1990s and include discussions of the narrators's family backgrounds, their emigrations from the southern United States (US) to the northern US, and their experiences working for the Pullman Company.

1.6 Linear Feet in 1 cassette box, 1 card box, and 1 half manuscript box, 29 audiocassettes

eng, Latn

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 11652521

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African-Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was founded in 1925 in New York City to counteract the poor wages, long hours, and other injustices practiced by the Pullman Car Company. A. Philip Randolph became president of the Brotherhood in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of...