Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role 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. Melinda Chateauvert explores the history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters who made up its membership and used the union to claim respectability and citizenship. As she shows, 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. Chateauvert also sheds light on the plight of Pullman maids, who—relegated to the Auxiliary—found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252066368

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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