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The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters was the first national trade union for African Americans.
Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union; few acknowledge
the important role of the Ladies' Auxiliary in shaping public debates
over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the
black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic
justice.
The Ladies' Auxiliary, made
up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood
to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the
auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of
the rhetoric of racial solidarity. The auxiliary actively educated other
women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests,
and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the
1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
A volume in the series
Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt,
and Stephanie Shaw, and in the series The Working Class in American History,
edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean
Wilentz
Car Porters was the first national trade union for African Americans.
Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union; few acknowledge
the important role of the Ladies' Auxiliary in shaping public debates
over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the
black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic
justice.
The Ladies' Auxiliary, made
up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood
to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the
auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of
the rhetoric of racial solidarity. The auxiliary actively educated other
women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests,
and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the
1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
A volume in the series
Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt,
and Stephanie Shaw, and in the series The Working Class in American History,
edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean
Wilentz
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Chateauvert, Melinda
- ISBN: 9780252066368
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.99 x 0.89
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 1997
Language:
English