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Guide to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection OH.021
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives |
| Title: |
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection |
| Dates [inclusive]: |
circa 1970s-1990s |
| Abstract: |
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.
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| Quantity: |
1.6 Linear Feet in 1 cassette box, 1 card box, and 1 half manuscript box |
| Quantity: |
29 audiocassettes |
| Language: |
Materials are in English. |
| Call Phrase: |
OH.021 |
