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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings

Title: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recordings]
Author: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Publication: [1950-1972]

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Description

112 sound tape reels.

Summary

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.
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.

Donor/Sponsor

Collection donated by Benjamin F. McLaurin.
Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources Access Project.

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Note

Individual meetings have been cataloged separately.
Established in Harlem in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters trade-union organized Black train porters and became a key force in the labor movement and civil rights movement under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph. In 1936, the Brotherhood was officially recognized by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the National Mediation Board. In 1937 the Brotherhood's first contract was signed with the Pullman Company which signified the beginning of a new era for the porters and the labor movement.

Reproduction (note)

Service copies.

Call Number

Sc Audio C-574--C-674

OCLC

NYPG94-R988

Author

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Title

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recordings]

Imprint

[1950-1972]

Reproduction

Service copies. New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1993. 139 sound cassettes.

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Added Author

Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.

McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989.

Webster, M. P. (Milton Price)

Totten, Ashley, 1884-1963.

Dellums, C. L. (Cottrell Laurence)

McNeal, T. D.

Patterson, Thomas.

Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-

Tucker, Rosina C. (Rosina Corrothers)

Wilson, Helena.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters meetings.

Research Call Number

Sc Audio C-574--C-674 Originals in Sc Audio TC-140--TC-251

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