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Author:
Chateauvert, Melinda.
Title:
Marching together women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Melinda Chateauvert.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Copyright Date:
c1998
Description:
xiv, 267 p. ill. 24 cm.
Subject:
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters--Ladies Auxiliary--History
Discrimination in employment--United States--History
Race discrimination--United States--History
Pullman porters--History
Labor unions--History--History
Women labor union members--United States--History
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the brotherhood story -- The case against Pullman -- It was the women who made the union : organizing the brotherhood -- Striking for the new manhood movement -- The first ladies' auxiliary to the first Negro trade union in the world -- A bigger and better ladies' auxiliary -- The duty of fair representation : brotherhood sisters and brothers -- Union wives, union homes -- We talked of democracy and learned it can be made to work : politics -- Disharmony in the official family : dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57 -- Appendix : BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary membership, 1940-56.
Series:
Women in American history
The working class in American history
ISBN:
9780252023408
0252023404
LCCN:
9700457998
Locations:
URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

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