Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Oral History Collection
circa 1970s-1990s, inclusive
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (Role: Collector)
Materials are in English.
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 were conducted in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; and Los Angeles, California. The narrators discuss their family background, their emigration from the southern United States (US) to the northern US, and their experiences working for the Pullman Company. The interviews cover race relations in the labor movement, segregation within the American Federation of Labor, and civil rights in the early to mid 20th century.
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives