Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters records, 1925-1969.

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters records, 1925-1969.

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Correspondence, minutes, reports, grievances, scrapbooks, clippings, fliers, newsletters, and publications; topical, financial, and membership files; and sound recordings of speeches, interviews, and conferences that were created by or collected by the Chicago Division office of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first national African American trade union. Includes Milton P. Webster's files of agendas, minutes, correspondence, and reports of the President's committee of Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC); A. Philip Randolph correspondence; records of the BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary containing correspondence, financial and membership files, and printed materials, particularly of its president, Mrs. Halena Wilson of Chicago; a scrapbook from the St. Louis Division of the BSCP containing clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, handbills, photographs, and news releases relative to the proposed March on Washington (1940s), FEPC, and other civil rights topics. Topics of the collection include the BSCP's early struggle in Chicago and New York City to attract members and gain formal recognition as the bargaining representative of Pullman porters and maids, and negotiations with the Pullman Company and various railway companies. Topics of the Ladies' Auxiliary files include wage and price controls, poll taxes, and consumer cooperatives sponsored by the Chicago Division of the auxiliary.

2 oversize folders.3 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. (Copies of most papers 1925-1938 in Boxes 1-5).3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Reader use).

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