Melinda Chateauvert is an activist and historian located in New Orleans and Washington, DC. She is the author of Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk.

• Preface   xiIntroduction: The Brotherhood Story   11. The Case against Pullman   192. "It Was the Women Who Made the Union": Organizing the Brotherhood   363. Striking for the New Manhood Movement   534. The First Ladies' Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World   715. "A Bigger and Better Ladies' Auxiliary"   956. "The Duty of Fair Representation": Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers   1167. Union Wives, Union Homes   1388. "We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work": Politics   1639. "Disharmony within the Official Family": Dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57Appendix: BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary Membership, 1940-56   199Notes   201Index   259Illustrations follow page 94

"A remarkably nuanced portrait of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. . . . Chateauvert unearths and dissects this story through impressive research and keen understanding."--Walter Licht, author of Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century

Melinda Chateauvert is an activist and historian located in New Orleans and Washington, DC. She is the author of Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk.

• Preface   xiIntroduction: The Brotherhood Story   11. The Case against Pullman   192. "It Was the Women Who Made the Union": Organizing the Brotherhood   363. Striking for the New Manhood Movement   534. The First Ladies' Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World   715. "A Bigger and Better Ladies' Auxiliary"   956. "The Duty of Fair Representation": Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers   1167. Union Wives, Union Homes   1388. "We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work": Politics   1639. "Disharmony within the Official Family": Dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57Appendix: BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary Membership, 1940-56   199Notes   201Index   259Illustrations follow page 94

"A remarkably nuanced portrait of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. . . . Chateauvert unearths and dissects this story through impressive research and keen understanding."--Walter Licht, author of Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century

Melinda Chateauvert is an activist and historian located in New Orleans and Washington, DC. She is the author of Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk.

• Preface   xiIntroduction: The Brotherhood Story   11. The Case against Pullman   192. "It Was the Women Who Made the Union": Organizing the Brotherhood   363. Striking for the New Manhood Movement   534. The First Ladies' Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World   715. "A Bigger and Better Ladies' Auxiliary"   956. "The Duty of Fair Representation": Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers   1167. Union Wives, Union Homes   1388. "We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work": Politics   1639. "Disharmony within the Official Family": Dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57Appendix: BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary Membership, 1940-56   199Notes   201Index   259Illustrations follow page 94

"A remarkably nuanced portrait of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. . . . Chateauvert unearths and dissects this story through impressive research and keen understanding."--Walter Licht, author of Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century