Oral histories [sound recording], 1988.
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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...
Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979
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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...
Pullman Company
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York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company. From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944 Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal sub...
International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Pullman Porters.
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was founded in Harlem in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph, Ashley L. Totten, W.H. Des Verney, and Roy Lancaster. Those attending the meeting called for recognition of the BSCP and the end of Pullman's Employee Representation Plan, a company union. It was not until 1936 that the BSCP recieved an international charter from the AFL. A year later, the union took advantage of the apparatus of the new National Labor Relations Board and signed its f...
