Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recording]. [1950-1972]

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recording]. [1950-1972]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652475

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' Meetings consists of approximately 200 taped hours of Brotherhood meetings and anniversary conventions featuring speeches by President A. Philip Randolph, First International Vice-President M.P. Webster, international field organizer Ben McLaurin, and numerous other key figures related to the Brotherhood. Meetings document grievances and claims sessions, legal rights discussions, committee reports and updates, speeches about porters' working conditions, arbitrations with the Pullman Company, the Brotherhood's involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, membership in the AFL and other unions, its support of the NAACP, and political and civil rights causes. Recordings document the determination and struggles of the organization and its fight for equality and justice inside and outside the workplace. Participants also included Ashley Totten, C.L. Dellums, T.D. McNeal, Thomas Patterson, Joseph L. Rauh, Rosina C. Tucker and Helena Wilson. Included in the collection are recordings of conventions and meetings of the Ladies Auxiliary, a major source of moral support to the Brotherhood; the National Committee for Rural Schools, an advocate organization for the desegregation of rural schools in the South among other civil rights issues; the Negro Labor Committee whose aim was to advance the cause of the Negro worker; the NAACP on their 43rd Anniversary during the election year of 1952; plus mass civil rights rallies held in New York City, one of which was to protest the murder of Emmett Till. Included in the collection are recordings of conventions and meetings of the National Committee for Rural Schools, an advocate organization for the desegregation of rural schools in the South among other civil rights causes; the Negro Labor Committee whose aim was to advance the cause of the Negro worker; the NAACP on their 43rd Anniversary during the election year of 1952; plus mass civil rights rallies held in New York City, one of which was to protest the murder of Emmett Till.

112 sound tape reels.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 6827516

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Patterson, Thomas

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