1st Edition
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights
By Robert L Allen
Copyright 2015
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters created a sea of change in labour and race relations in the US. For the first time in US history, a black labour union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and archival research, this new book tells the story of the union and its charismatic leader C.L. Dellums, starting from the BSCP's origins as the first... Read more
1 Introduction 2 From Corsicana to California 3 Working for Pullman 4 Building the Brotherhood 5 The Struggle against Pullman for a Contract 6 The NAACP, Community Struggles, and Family Life 7 World War II and Leveraging the Power of the Brotherhood 8 FEPC: Struggle and Success 9 A Life Lived in the Struggle
Biography
Robert L. Allen--professor, author, and editor--recently retired as Adjunct Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, among other books, of Black Awakening in Capitalist America.
